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English
Adjective
be-sceptered (not comparable)
- Alternative form of besceptered
1907 November 18, “High Finance Is the Cause: Julian Laughlin, Author of “The Origin of Civilization,” Advances an Unique Explanation of the Present Financial Difficulties”, in The Arkansas Democrat, volume 37, number 63, Little Rock, Ark., page 2:Mr. Laughlin recited the first rise of J. Pierpont Morgan as the be-crowned and be-sceptered king of finance at the time of the organization of the great steel trust, and the resolve of the Rockefeller crowd to dethrone him and fleece him of many of his millions.
1923, Report of the Fortieth Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, page 151:I have told you these things that you may know that no be-sceptered and be-crowned king ever reigned in a more God-blessed land than ours.
1953, The New York Times Book Review, page 20:Thus the book’s witty dust-jacket pictures him, bloated, be-sceptered Florizel, […]
2000 October 1, Bill McCarty, “Buggering The Furure King?........”, in alt.journalism.gay-press (Usenet):>Most people here will know my views on Sodomy - / Fraid not. You assume a level of interest in perversion far above that which actually exists west of your anally be-sceptered island.