desceptre

present singular third person desceptres · participle present desceptring · participle past desceptred · past desceptred

1. alternativeAlternative form of descepter.

   Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?

   2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2

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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.

   1610, Giles Fletcher, The Complete Poems of Giles Fletcher the Younger, published 1938, page 199

   It concerned Herod, who at firſt received his Crown from Cæſar, to further Cæſar’s tribute, not only in way of thankfulneſs, but alſo in way of policy, to prevent a poſſible depoſing or deſceptring; for it was in Cæſar’s power to take away the Crown again when pleaſed him.

   1678, Thomas Godwyn, Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews; Observed, and at Large Opened, for the Clearing of Many Obscure Texts Thorowout the Whole Scripture, London: […] S. Griffin, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswel, page 61

   Deceived, desceptred, immured eight weary years, / That mocked my miseries and turned me all to tears!

   19th century, J. C. S., The Tragedy of The Emperor Shah Jehan, Delhi: […] The Art Printing Works; Agents in India: The Central Mercantile Co. of India, →OCLC, page 160

   […]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;

   1924, Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Shame Dance and Other Stories, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 13

   The iron hand with which they ruled was desceptred on Saturday afternoon by the clan of McGeehan who bested them in battle.

   1928 October 29, “Red and White Severely Jolted In First Defeat of Season By Score of 18: Five Thousand Football Devotees See Red and White Bow to McGeehan’s Clan on Saturday Afternoon”, in Mount Carmel News, volume LVII, number 345, Mount Carmel, Pa., page four