unsceptre

Etymology

From un- + sceptre.

unsceptre means To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.

verb

To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.“It is the cuſtome for their Kings to inherite, the ſonne alvvayes taking the Kingdome after his fathers death. If there be no ſonne, then the Queene rules; if no Queene, the next to the blood-royall, vvho comes in othervvise, is but counted an uſurping intruder, and if his faire carriage beare him not out the better, they vvill ſoone unſcepter him.”