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Sceptre logo #10101) Bauble 2) Club 3) Mace 4) Scepter
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Sceptre logo #10101) Ceremonial staff 2) Emblem of authority 3) Heraldic charge 4) Reign 5) Royal staff 6) Royal staff, to a brit 7) Scepter 8) Sovereignty 9) Wand for Victoria
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sceptre logo #10444
  1. the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter
  2. a ceremonial or emblematic staff

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Sceptre logo #21000 A sceptre (or scepter in U.S. English) is a symbolic ornamental staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia. Sometimes, it could be used for showing a sense of divinity. ==Antiquity== The was and other types of staffs were a sign of authority in Ancient Egypt, for which reason they are often describe...
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Sceptre logo #21000[fusion reactor] Sceptre was an early fusion power device based on the Z-pinch concept of plasma confinement, built in the UK starting in 1957. They were the ultimate versions of a series of devices tracing their history to the original pinch machines, built at Imperial College London by Cousins and Ware in 1947. When the UK`s fusion work w...
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Sceptre logo #21000[imprint] Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK. Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking...
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Sceptre logo #21002• (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. • (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. • (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
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Sceptre logo #21170(from Greek skeptron) - a part of royal insignia, developed from a simple staff. A symbol of spiritual and worldly power. In the Middle Ages two forms were distinguished: a long staff (baculum), otherwise called rod, and a short one (sceptrum), although their meaning was identical. The long staff, topped with a globe, is a typical attribute of God ...
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sceptre logo #21003ornamented rod or staff borne by rulers on ceremonial occasions as an emblem of authority and sovereignty. The primeval symbol of the staff was ... [1 related articles]
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Sceptre logo #21217HMS Sceptre was a British Sealion Class submarine of 715 tons displacement launched during the early 1940's. HMS Sceptre was armed with one 3-inch gun; one 20 mm anti-aircraft gun; three machine-guns; six 21-inch torpedo tubes in the bow and one external 21 inch torpedo tube. She had a top speed of 14.5 knots surfaced and 10 knots submerged, could ...
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sceptre logo #23421[Wuthering Heights] a rod or staff, highly ornamented, held by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereignty.
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