Desceptre

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of descepter. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From de- + sceptre.

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