desceptreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

desceptre (三人称単数 現在形 desceptres, 現在分詞 desceptring, 過去形および過去分詞形 desceptred)

1. Alternative form of descepter
   • 1610, Giles Fletcher, The Complete Poems of Giles Fletcher the Younger, published 1938, page 199:

     Therefore above the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most majestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and gemmed every whear, / And of their golden virges none desceptred wear.

   • 1678, Thomas Godwyn, Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews; Observed, and at Large Opened, for the Clearing of Many Obscure Texts Thorowout the Whole Scripture, London: […] S. Griffin, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswel, page 61:

     It concerned Herod, who at firſt received his Crown from Cæſar, to further Cæſar’s tribute, not only in way of thankfulneſs, but alſo in way of policy, to prevent a poſſible depoſing or deſceptring; for it was in Cæſar’s power to take away the Crown again when pleaſed him.

   • [18--?], J. C. S., The Tragedy of The Emperor Shah Jehan, Delhi: […] The Art Printing Works; Agents in India: The Central Mercantile Co. of India, OCLC 27258291, page 160:

     Deceived, desceptred, immured eight weary years, / That mocked my miseries and turned me all to tears!

   • 1924, Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Shame Dance and Other Stories, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 13:

     […]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;

   • 1928 October 29, “Red and White Severely Jolted In First Defeat of Season By Score of 18: Five Thousand Football Devotees See Red and White Bow to McGeehan’s Clan on Saturday Afternoon”, in Mount Carmel News, volume LVII, number 345, Mount Carmel, Pa., page four:

     The iron hand with which they ruled was desceptred on Saturday afternoon by the clan of McGeehan who bested them in battle.

   • 2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2:

     Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?