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Definition of: scepter
(sep′tər) noun
1. A staff or wand carried as the badge of command or sovereignty.
2. Hence, kingly office or power.
—v.t.
1. To confer the scepter on; invest with royal power.
2. To furnish with or as with a scepter or scepters. Also scep′tre (-tər). [<OF ceptre, sceptre <L sceptrum <Gk. skēptron a staff <skēptesthai prop oneself, lean on]
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