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Sceptred

Definition: Sceptred

Sceptred

Adjective

1. Invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sceptred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Synonyms: Sceptred

Synonyms: empowered (adj), sceptered (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sceptred

Specialty definitions using "sceptred": Royal Titles. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Sceptred

"Sceptred" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sceptred" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sceptred

Language Translations for "sceptred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

uralmon levő, uralkodói (regal, sceptered, sovereign), királyi (kingly, lord high almoner, regal, royal, royal academy, royalty). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptredscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sceptred

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: crested, recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectre.

-2 letters: ceders, certes, creeds, creeps, creped, crepes, desert, deters, erects, pester, peters, preset, recept, resect, rested, screed, secret, terces.

-3 letters: ceder, cedes, cepes, cered, ceres, cetes, creed, creep, crepe, crept, crest, deeps, deers, deets, deter, drees, drest, erect, ester, pedes, peers, perse, peter, preed, prees, prese, prest, redes, reeds, reest, reset, scree, seder, sered, speed, speer, spree, steed, steep, steer, stere, strep, terce, terse, treed, trees.

-4 letters: cede, cees, cepe, ceps, cere, cete, deep, deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, erst, pecs, peds, peed, peer, pees, pert, pest, pets, pree, recs, rede, reds, reed, rees, reps, rest, rete, rets, sect, seed, seep, seer, sept, sere, spec, sped, step, teds, teed, tees, tree.

-5 letters: cee, cep, dee, eds, ere, ers, pec, ped, pee, per, pes, pet, rec, red, ree, rep, res, ret, sec, see, ser, set, ted, tee.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: depicters, prosected, respected, sceptered.

 

+2 letters: deprecates, disrespect, pederastic, persecuted, precedents, predicates, prosecuted, prospected, resculpted.

 

+3 letters: carpetweeds, copresented, copresident, crowstepped, depreciates, descriptive, disrespects, interspaced, predacities, preselected, reinspected.

 

+4 letters: computerised, copresidents, corespondent, counterposed, decrepitates, decrepitudes, deprecations, depreciators, disrespected, introspected, photoreduces, prediabetics, predicaments, presentenced, reduplicates, retrospected, stepchildren, transpierced.

 

+5 letters: corespondents, correspondent, counterpoised, decipherments, depreciations, descriptively, disrespectful, disrespecting, outreproduces, periodicities, preadolescent, predilections, presanctified, prestructured, propaedeutics, redescription, reproductives, superinfected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sceptred


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 65 70 74 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    .    .--.    -    .-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#116 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0065 0070 0074 0072 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369718286847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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