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sceptre

noun
/ˈsɛptə/UK/ˈsɛptɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).

  1. derived from σκῆπτρον
  2. derived from scēptrum
  3. derived from sceptre
  4. inherited from septre

Definitions

  1. An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.

    • To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.
    • But what had occupied him most was the robe he was to wear at his coronation, the robe of tissued gold, and the ruby-studded crown, and the sceptre with its rows and rings of pearls.

  2. To give a sceptre to.

    • To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.

  3. To invest with royal power.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A hamlet (special service area) in the Rural Municipality of Clinworth, Saskatchewan,…

      A hamlet (special service area) in the Rural Municipality of Clinworth, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA