descepter

verb

1. To deprive of a scepter; to deprive of the status of monarch or of authority.

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

   “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?”

   “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.”