Meaning of besceptered | Babel Free

Definitions

Holding a scepter.

not-comparable

Examples

“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;”

“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.”

“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.””

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.””

“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.”

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

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

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