Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sceptered"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Sceptered}or {Sceptred} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sceptering}or
{Sceptring}.]
To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest
with royal authority.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends.
--Tickell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sceptered
adj : invested with legal power or official authority especially
as symbolized by having a scepter [syn: {empowered}, {sceptred}]
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