Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sceptring"
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.
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