scepter

English

Noun

scepter (plural scepters)

American spelling and archaic form of sceptre
- 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
  Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,

Verb

scepter (third-person singular simple present scepters, present participle sceptering, simple past and past participle sceptered)

American spelling form of sceptre

Anagrams

Sceptre, recepts, respect, sceptre, specter, spectre

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Noun

scepter m (plural scepters, diminutive sceptertje n)

sceptre

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