Find the word definition

Crossword clues for sceptred

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sceptred

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.

Wiktionary
sceptred

vb. (en-past of: sceptre)

WordNet
sceptred

adj. invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter [syn: empowered, sceptered]

Usage examples of "sceptred".

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.

And, for pure sham and hypocrisy, the salary is just the match of the ambassador's official clothes--that boastful advertisement of a Republican Simplicity which manifests itself at home in Fifty-thousand-dollar salaries to insurance presidents and railway lawyers, and in domestic palaces whose fittings and furnishings often transcend in costly display and splendour and richness the fittings and furnishings of the palaces of the sceptred masters of Europe.