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• s  invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter

• The analogous reference in Penseroso may be found in lines 97-102: "Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the .
• Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet.

• empowered
• sceptered

Quotes

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• William Shakespeare in Cité Libre Magazine
  Shakespeare wrote stirring words of nationalist pride --- "this sceptred isle, this England" -- in his historical plays, and Milton asserted without any sense of bombast, "Let not England forget her precedence in teaching other nations how to...