be-sceptred

See also: besceptred

English

Adjective

be-sceptred (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of besceptered
   • 1823 May 14, The Morning Chronicle‎^[1], number 16,869, London:

     A few such things be-crowned, and be-throned, and be-sceptred, would do the world an infinity of good, and oblige people to turn their attention to improving the breed of Kings.

   • 1849 October, “The Great King of Sweden”, in Eliza Cook’s Journal, volume I, London: John Owen Clarke, page 215:

     To such the following rapid survey of the life of a real king, and no be-sceptred nonentity, will perchance have a deeper lesson than its surface shows:—[…]

   • 1870 August 27, “A Visit to St. Paul’s”, in The Musical Standard, volume XIII, number 317, London, page 88:

     Then the little boys came, then the singing men, then the officiating clergy, then another “virger” rather more lame, more bent, more be-sceptred than the one who had led off; and immediately behind him the dean.

   • 1899 April, The Daily Intelligencer‎^[2]:

     […] some be-sceptred […] in the Canadian Methodist Church […]

   • 1925 February 24, “Opening Night of Gyro Mardi Gras Success: Prizes Awarded for Fancy Costumes — Mrs. F. Thomas is Queen”, in Free Press Evening Bulletin, volume 28, number 121, Winnipeg, Man., page 2:

     The trumpets called again, and in strode his majesty, in regal purple, be-crowned and be-sceptred, and sat himself upon the throne.