Meanings
nounscepter (plural scepters)
plural scepters
- American and archaic form of sceptre.
Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,
1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]
verbscepter (third-person singular simple present scepters, present participle sceptering, simple past and past participle sceptered)
present singular third person scepters · participle present sceptering · participle past sceptered · past sceptered
- American form of sceptre.
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APA
scepter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scepter
MLA
“scepter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scepter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scepter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scepter.
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