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• n  the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter
• n  a ceremonial or emblematic staff

• Translucent, lighter-than-air panels, billowing plastic waves, scepter-like deep-sea sculptures, which manage to convey not just one undersea world but a host of neighborhoods .
• One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick.
• In the story, the explorer takes the scepter back to Venice where Toso Fei's first Ruyi game is set before it is donated to the Vatican.

• sceptre
• verge
• wand

News & Articles

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• Koutoujian in the right place, right time
  Dressed smartly in a top hat and wielding a ceremonial scepter, Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian demonstrated he was still the law in town when he intervened in an assault and battery after the Harvard University commencement on Thursday, May 30.
  June 5, 2013 - Stoneham Sun

Quotes

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• Sally Kellerman in San Francisco Chronicle
  The bier was of solid gold, studded with precious stones, and hand a cover of purple, embroidered with various colors; on this lay the body enveloped in a purple robe, a diadem encircling the head and surmounted by a crown of gold, the scepter... Josephus Flavius http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFK3EJQi1BGcxNg6gqH46Uw6ffMqw USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-05-08-herod-tomb_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEkySIEveU44spJkXucOETowbIcTA May 8, 2007 86447 115563 scepter I was afraid to move," Kellerman says. "Here I am in these glamorous gowns and feathers, and I'm from the Valley, you know what I'm saying? A tomboy. The first couple of nights I let the gowns wear me. I was like a walking scepter."
• James Madison in San Francisco Chronicle
  In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason,warned Madison in Federalist 55. "Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have...