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unsceptre

unsceptre verb: to deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.

Verb

unsceptre (third-person singular simple present unsceptres, present participle unsceptring, simple past and past participle unsceptred)

  1. To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
    • 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...1634, William Wood, “Of Their Kings Government, and Subjects Obedience”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England...
    • Upon the sodden ground / His [the god Saturn’s] old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, / Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; […]1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 146

Examples of unsceptre in a sentence

  • Ye hate, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus, / Or anger empty any throne in heaven?1870, John Leicester Warren, “Pandora”, in Rehearsals, London: Strahan, page 23:
  • I can make kings and unsceptre them, / Yet cannot give my heart to whom I choose.1967, John Cairncross (translator), Berenice by Jean Racine, Act 3, Scene 1, in Andromache and Other Plays, Penguin, 1982, p. 255

Synonyms of unsceptre

Forms of unsceptre

third-person singular presentunsceptres
present participleunsceptring
past participleunsceptred
pastunsceptred
alternative formunscepter

Origin of unsceptre

From un- + sceptre.

Questions about unsceptre

What does unsceptre mean?
Unsceptre means to deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
How do you use unsceptre in a sentence?
Ye hate, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus, / Or anger empty any throne in heaven?
What part of speech is unsceptre?
Unsceptre is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsceptre?
The past tense of unsceptre is unsceptred.

Words near unsceptre in the dictionary

  1. unsceptered
  2. unsceptering
  3. unscepters
  4. unsceptical
  5. unsceptically
  6. unsceptre
  7. unsceptred
  8. unsceptres
  9. unsceptring
  10. unschedulable
  11. unschedule

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