besceptered

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1. not comparableHolding a scepter.

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

   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

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   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;

   1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman, volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821

   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.

   1873 January 4, The Minneapolis Daily Tribune, volume VI, number 176, Minneapolis, Minn.

   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.”

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

   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.

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

   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.

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

   Synonyms: sceptred