Synonyms:
empowered, sceptered, sceptred
Meaning: invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter
Usage examples
But these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of the Union, in respect to revenue, must necessarily be empowered to extend.
It must stand in need of no intermediate legislations; but must itself be empowered to employ the arm of the ordinary magistrate to execute its own resolutions.
The commissioners were also empowered to press the king on the article of religion, and to recommend to him the Scottish model of ecclesiastic worship and discipline.
By a series of measures, enlarging the principles of the shipping act of 1916, ships and shipyards were brought under public control and the government was empowered to embark upon a great ship-building program.