desceptre
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[edit]Verb
[edit]desceptre (third-person singular simple present desceptres, present participle desceptring, simple past and past participle desceptred)
- Alternative form of descepter
- 1610, Giles Fletcher, The Complete Poems of Giles Fletcher the Younger, published 1938, page 199:
- Therefore above the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most majestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed every whear, / And of their golden virges none desceptred wear.
- 1678, Thomas Godwyn, Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews; Observed, and at Large Opened, for the Clearing of Many Obscure Texts Thorowout the Whole Scripture, London: […] S. Griffin, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswel, page 61:
- It concerned Herod, who at firſt received his Crown from Cæſar, to further Cæſar’s tribute, not only in way of thankfulneſs, but alſo in way of policy, to prevent a poſſible depoſing or deſceptring; for it was in Cæſar’s power to take away the Crown again when pleaſed him.
- 1924, Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Shame Dance and Other Stories, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 13:
- […]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;
- 1928 October 29, “Red and White Severely Jolted In First Defeat of Season By Score of 18: Five Thousand Football Devotees See Red and White Bow to McGeehan’s Clan on Saturday Afternoon”, in Mount Carmel News, volume LVII, number 345, Mount Carmel, Pa., page four:
- The iron hand with which they ruled was desceptred on Saturday afternoon by the clan of McGeehan who bested them in battle.
- 2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2:
- Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?