besceptered

See also: be-sceptered

English

Alternative forms

• be-sceptered
• be-sceptred
• besceptred

Etymology

From be- +‎ scepter +‎ -ed.

Adjective

besceptered (not comparable)

1. Holding a scepter.
   • 1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman‎^[1], volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821:

     Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;

   • 1873 January 4, The Minneapolis Daily Tribune‎^[2], volume VI, number 176, Minneapolis, Minn.:

     President [Adolphe] Thiers slipped and fell on the Paris pavement the other day. The fall of a French ruler is a rather frequent occurrence, but Thiers has not slipped much since he ascended the republican throne. In falling, moreover, he differed widely from his becrowned and besceptered predecessors: he got up again.

   • 1907 October 27, “Jackson Reincarnated”, in The Daily Missoulian, volume XXXIV, number 175, Missoula, Mont., page 6:

     It taxes the imagination to associate the “Old Hickory”—that mighty pioneer of democracy who could never fight his enemies hard enough or do too much for his friends—with a becrowned and besceptered personality, with a “your majesty,” in short: but a recent writer, evidently exceptionally well informed, compels us to conclude that, temperamentally, at least, King Leopold and Andrew Jackson are “two of a kind.”

   • 1921 October 29, “Persistent Monarchist Folly”, in Glendale Daily Press, volume 1, number 206, Glendale, page four:

     In each of the countries so deeply wronged by a royalty proclaiming divine right, there abides hope among the rulers cast out, of once more wearing the purple and holding power in besceptered hands.

   • 1922, Edwin E[mery] Slosson, June E[tta] Downey, “Plot-Making as a Safety-Valve”, in Plots and Personalities: A New Method of Testing and Training the Creative Imagination, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 171:

     The article was illustrated by an entrancing picture of a queen on her throne, becrowned, besceptered, bejeweled.

   • 1933 September 24, “Cincinnati Bearcats’ Brain Trust Expects Colorful Brand Of Football”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCIII, number 167, page 31:

     With “King Football” besceptered and enthroned as the reigning monach^[sic] in the dynasty of fall sports, the 1933 University of Cincinnati gridiron edition has been taking form during recent scrimmages in preparation for the stiff nine-game program, which is inaugurated with Rio Grande at Nippert Stadium, next Saturday night.

   • 1940 August 22, Jean F. Agnew, “Mr. Willkie Challenged ‘Candidate’ Roosevelt”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 57, number 59, Pittsburgh, Pa., page eight:

     Why don’t the papers point out that Willkie is challenging Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate, not President Roosevelt, besceptered in gold and invested in purple?

   • 1955, Max Rosenberg, Introduction to Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 17:

     After our wearisome, yet zestful, mountain-climb perhaps we shall find a besceptered Truth—absolute, majestic, and immortal, reclining like a Zeus on an Olympus ruling the reality of things.

   • 1978, Mihai Eminescu, Andrei Bantaș, transl., “Angel and Demon”, in Poems: Romanian-English Bilingual Edition, Bucharest: Minerva Publishing House, page 109:

     Once a pale king came as wooer and the crown of his old land, / Laden with past strength and glories, at her feet would fain have thrown, / Had she only set her slippers on the carpets of the throne, / Placing in his fist besceptered her own small and tap’ring hand.

   • 1995, “June”, in Betty Rose Nagle, transl., Ovid’s Fasti: Roman Holidays, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, lines 479–480, page 165:

     This is the place and date that King Servius’ besceptered hands founded Mother Matuta’s holy temple.

   • 1996, Pat Boni, “Martin Buber and King Lear”, in Maurice Friedman, editor, Martin Buber and the Human Sciences, State University of New York Press, page 237:

     Shakespeare’s Lear, having first entered in Act I a berobed, besceptered, and crowned King, now stands, halfway through the play, in solitude in the midst of a relentless storm on an uncharted heath “unbonneted,” having given his crown away, and naked, having stripped himself of his “sophisticated lendings.”

   • 2003, Richard D. E. Burton, “How to Read Prague”, in Prague: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination), New York, N.Y., Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 11:

     On the gable between the two towers is mounted a refulgent golden relief statue of the Mother of God, the sun’s rays streaming out from her as, crowned and besceptered, she stands in triumph upon an inverted half-moon: the city’s hope and protection against the enemies held up for derision on the clock tower opposite.

   • 2016 January–February, Bert Almon, “During the First Gaza War”, in Quadrant, page 85:

     Across the aisle, the Milanese Madonna and her baby wear their own crowns, and she is besceptered: no further gifts are required.

   • 2020, Robert Lecker, “1957–1972”, in Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada’s First Literary Agent, Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont., London, Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

     Thus conceived, Effeticus would sit “besceptered on a lofty throne” with an “Interglobal telephone” as his crown.

Synonyms

• sceptred