unsceptre

Definitions

To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.

Examples

“It is the cuſtome for their Kings to inherite, the ſonne alvvayes taking the Kingdome after his fathers death. If there be no ſonne, then the Queene rules; if no Queene, the next to the blood-royall, vvho comes in othervvise, is but counted an uſurping intruder, and if his faire carriage beare him not out the better, they vvill ſoone unſcepter him.”

“Upon the sodden ground / His [the god Saturn’s] old right hand lay⟳ nerveless, listless, dead, / Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; […]”

“Ye hate⟳, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus, / Or anger empty any throne in heaven?”

“I can make⟳ kings and unsceptre them, / Yet cannot give⟳ my heart to whom I choose⟳.”

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