"desceptre" meaning in English

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      "form": "desceptring",
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      "form": "desceptred",
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      "form": "desceptred",
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          "ref": "1610, Giles Fletcher, The Complete Poems of Giles Fletcher the Younger, published 1938, page 199",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "19th century, 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, page 160",
          "text": "Deceived, desceptred, immured eight weary years, / That mocked my miseries and turned me all to tears!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Shame Dance and Other Stories, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 13",
          "text": "[…]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;",
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        },
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "The iron hand with which they ruled was desceptred on Saturday afternoon by the clan of McGeehan who bested them in battle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2",
          "text": "Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?",
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    },
    {
      "form": "desceptred",
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    },
    {
      "form": "desceptred",
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          "ref": "1610, Giles Fletcher, The Complete Poems of Giles Fletcher the Younger, published 1938, page 199",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1924, Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Shame Dance and Other Stories, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 13",
          "text": "[…]; the local and desceptred chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees;",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "The iron hand with which they ruled was desceptred on Saturday afternoon by the clan of McGeehan who bested them in battle.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000, Tony Harrison, “A Celebratory Ode on the Abdication of King Charles III”, in Laureate’s Block, Penguin Books, page 2",
          "text": "Why has it taken all this while desceptring ‘this sceptred isle’?",
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        }
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