besceptered

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From be- +‎ scepter +‎ -ed.

besceptered (not comparable)

1. Holding a scepter.
   • 1821 July 19, George, Vermont Republican and American Yeoman‎, volume XIII, number 43, Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, published 8 October 1821:

     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;

   • 1873 January 4, The Minneapolis Daily Tribune‎, volume VI, number 176, Minneapolis, Minn.:

     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.

   • 1907 October 27, “Jackson Reincarnated”, in The Daily Missoulian, volume XXXIV, number 175, Missoula, Mont., page 6:

     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.”

   • 1921 October 29, “Persistent Monarchist Folly”, in Glendale Daily Press, volume 1, number 206, Glendale, page four:

     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.

   • 1922, Edwin E[mery] Slosson, June E[tta] Downey, “Plot-Making as a Safety-Valve”, in Plots and Personalities: A New Method of Testing and Training the Creative Imagination, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 171:

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

   • 1933 September 24, “Cincinnati Bearcats’ Brain Trust Expects Colorful Brand Of Football”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCIII, number 167, page 31:

     With “King Football” besceptered and enthroned as the reigning monach 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.

   • 1940 August 22, Jean F. Agnew, “Mr. Willkie Challenged ‘Candidate’ Roosevelt”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 57, number 59, Pittsburgh, Pa., page eight:

     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?

   • 1955, Max Rosenberg, Introduction to Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, page 17:

     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.

   • 1978, Mihai Eminescu, Andrei Bantaș, transl., “Angel and Demon”, in Poems: Romanian-English Bilingual Edition, Bucharest: Minerva Publishing House, page 109:

     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.

   • 1995, “June”, in Betty Rose Nagle, transl., Ovid’s Fasti: Roman Holidays, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, lines 479–480, page 165:

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

   • 1996, Pat Boni, “Martin Buber and King Lear”, in Maurice Friedman, editor, Martin Buber and the Human Sciences, State University of New York Press, page 237:

     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.”

   • 2003, Richard D. E. Burton, “How to Read Prague”, in Prague: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination), New York, N.Y., Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 11:

     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.

   • 2016 January–February, Bert Almon, “During the First Gaza War”, in Quadrant, page 85:

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

   • 2020, Robert Lecker, “1957–1972”, in Who Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada’s First Literary Agent, Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont., London, Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 229:

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

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