Crossword clues for sceptre
sceptre
- Royal baton
- Respect changes in royal staff
- Third of sackings in one month concerning staff
- Ceremonial staff
- Sovereign's rod
- Emblem of royalty
- Victoria Regina's royal rod
- Royal staff, to a Brit
- Respect (anag) — symbol of ruler's authority
- Possession of Elizabeth II
- Orb's partner, in British iconography
- Coronation rod, in Britain
- Sovereignty, in Sussex
- Royal rod, in Britain
- The imperial authority symbolized by a scepter
- A ceremonial or emblematic staff
- Wand for Victoria
- Elizabeth's staff
- British monarchy's symbol of authority
- Symbol of sovereignty in 2 Down
- Extraordinary respect for monarch's staff
- Show staff new respect
- Saint Peter prepared to carry the top of Christ's ceremonial staff
- Ruler's staff
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scepteredor Sceptred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scepteringor Sceptring.] To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends.
--Tickell.
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, n. [F. sceptre, L. sceptrum, from Gr. ? a staff to lean upon, a scepter; probably akin to E. shaft. See Shaft, and cf. Scape a stem, shaft.]
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A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand.
--Esther v. -
2. Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.
--Gen. xlix. 10.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of scepter (q.v.); for spelling, see -re. Related: Sceptred.
Wiktionary
n. An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power. vb. To give a sceptre to.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A sceptre is a symbolic staff.
Sceptre or scepter may also refer to:
- Sceptre, Saskatchewan
- Scepter Records, a record label
- Sceptre Incorporated, a consumer electronics producer
- Sceptre (horse), a racehorse
- Studebaker Sceptre (car), a Studebaker prototype car for 1967
- Humber Sceptre, a British car
- HMS Sceptre, the name given to five ships of the Royal Navy
- Scepter of Goth, early multiplayer game
- Sceptre (imprint), an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
- AT&T Sceptre, a graphics terminal made by AT&T from 1983 to 1986
- Sceptre (fusion reactor), a z-pinch fusion reactor
- SlipStream Scepter, kit aircraft
- Sceptre (Russian band), a Russian heavy metal band
- Sceptre (Indian band), an Indian thrash metal band
- Sceptre (yacht), 12-metre class yacht
Sceptre (1899–1926) was a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred racemare whose career ran from 1901 to 1904. In 1902, she became the only racehorse to win four British Classic Races outright.
Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK.
Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking, stimulating, surprising and enlightening.
A sceptre or scepter (see spelling differences) is a symbolic ornamental staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia. Sometimes, it could be used for showing a sense of divinity.
Sceptre (K-17) was the unsuccessful challenger of the 1958 America's Cup for the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Sceptre were a Russian heavy metal band that was formed in 2006 in Saratov.
Sceptre is an Indian thrash metal band formed in 1998, in Mumbai. They draw their prime influences from bands such as Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura and Lamb of God.
Its current members include Gilroy Fernandes on guitars, Aniket Waghmode on drums, Janus Sayal on bass and Gary Gracious on vocals
In the recent years the band portrayed their cause for fighting violence against women in their album Age of Calamity.
Sceptre was an early fusion power device based on the Z-pinch concept of plasma confinement, built in the UK starting in 1957. They were the ultimate versions of a series of devices tracing their history to the original pinch machines, built at Imperial College London by Cousins and Ware in 1947. When the UK's fusion work was classified in 1950, Ware's team was moved to the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) labs at Aldermaston. The team worked on the problems associated with using metal tubes with high voltages, in support of the efforts at Harwell. When Harwell's ZETA machine apparently produced fusion, AEI quickly built a smaller machine, Sceptre, to test their results. Sceptre also produced neutrons, apparently confirming the ZETA experiment. It was later found that the neutrons were spurious, and UK work on Z-pinch ended in the early 1960s.
Usage examples of "sceptre".
Prophetess, you are very wise, as all know, yet once your foot slipped--or rather your hand slipped, when in bygone days you stretched it out to touch the sceptre of the King of kings.
I likewise admired the start given to the orchestra by the baton of the leader, but he disgusted me with the movements of his sceptre right and left, as if he thought that he could give life to all the instruments by the mere motion of his arm.
The sceptred wretch then from that solitude I drew, and, of his change compassionate, With words of sadness soothed his rugged mood.
On the wall above the bed hung a portrait of the late King Alsen, sceptred, official, and benevolent.
Some of the disloyal papers in Ireland, while abusing the Canadian Protestants with bitterness, expressed their hope that they would settle the dispute by an appeal to arms, forcibly severing the colony from the sceptre of Victoria.
Palestine, had usurped the Imperial sceptre, the Christians acquired a friend and a protector.
That rash youth, the son of the princess Eutropia, and the nephew of Constantine, had seen with indignation the sceptre of the West usurped by a perfidious barbarian.
The reigning emperor, though he had usurped the sceptre by treason and murder, immediately assumed the sacred character of vicegerent of the Deity.
Each crocodile was girt with massive gold And polished stones, that with their wearers grew: But one there was who waxed beyond the rest, Wore kinglier girdle and a kingly crown, Whilst crowns and orbs and sceptres starred his breast.
The strangers of the West had violated the city, and bestowed the sceptre, of Constantine: their Imperial clients soon became as unpopular as themselves: the well-known vices of Isaac were rendered still more contemptible by his infirmities, and the young Alexius was hated as an apostate, who had renounced the manners and religion of his country.
Orogastus bespoke his Green Voice at Ruwenda Citadel, commanding him to begin a search of the great library there, gleaning whatever knowledge of the talismans, the Living Trillium, or the Threefold Sceptre of the Vispi might be found.
In the cool shade of retirement, we may easily devise imaginary forms of government, in which the sceptre shall be constantly bestowed on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community.
I had manufactured a sort of sceptre or magic wand with the branch of olive brought by Franzia from Cesena.
Denby thought Binah was a lunatic to risk setting the Threefold Sceptre of Power free to countermand the threat, and he got all in a swivet when she arranged for you three to be born.
Three vials of the tears which daemons weep When virtuous spirits through the gate of Death Pass triumphing over the thorns of life, Sceptres and crowns, mitres and swords and snares, Trampling in scorn, like Him and Socrates.