4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Sceptered}or {Sceptred} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Sceptering}or
{Sceptring}.]
To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest
with royal authority.
To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends.
--Tickell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scepter \Scep"ter\, Sceptre \Scep"tre\, n. [F. sceptre, L.
sceptrum from Gr ? a staff to lean upon a scepter;
probably akin to E. shaft. See {Shaft}, and cf {Scape} a
stem, shaft.]
1. A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial
badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
And the king held out Esther the golden scepter that
was in his hand. --Esther v. 2.
2. Hence royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty;
as to assume the scepter.
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come
--Gen. xlix.
10.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scepter
n 1: the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter [syn: {sceptre}]
2: a ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: {sceptre}, {verge}, {wand}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his
authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign
admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the
bones of their proponents.
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