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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority..
I can make kings and unsceptre them, / Yet cannot give my heart to whom I choose.
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.
Upon the sodden ground / His [the god Saturn’s] old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, / Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; […]
Ye hate, shall hatred then unsceptre Zeus, / Or anger empty any throne in heaven?
Use unsceptre when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unsceptre means To deprive of a sceptre; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority..
Common synonyms include decrown, depose, descepter, dethrone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I can make kings and unsceptre them, / Yet cannot give my heart to whom I choose.
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