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語源

From de- +‎ scepter.

動詞

descepter (三人称単数 現在形 descepters, 現在分詞 desceptering, 過去形および過去分詞形 desceptered)

1. To deprive of a scepter; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.
   • 1906 August 4, “The Matter with Madden”, in Appeal to Reason, number 557, Girard, Kan., page 4:

     Shall the czar be desceptered, or shall the publishers and the reading public remain subject to his sway?

   • 1956, Thomas A. Bailey, “The War for Southern Independence”, in The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Boston, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Company, LCCN 56-5970, page 425:

     king cotton topples from his throne […] Desceptering King Cotton The textile factories of Britain were heavily dependent on Southern cotton, and the Confederates were unshakably confident that the British fleet would be forced to break the blockade. Why did King Cotton fail them?

   • 2000, Jennifer Atkinson, “October Rose”, in The Drowned City, Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

     The October rose, done-for, deposed dowager majarani of the sideyard, munificent Persian slumped on her cane, uncrowned, desceptered, undeceptive, now leans against my neighbor’s fence, the image of feigned indifference.