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thorough-paced

thorough-paced is the alternative form of thoroughpaced.

Meaning of thoroughpaced

Adjective

thoroughpaced (comparative more thoroughpaced, superlative most thoroughpaced)

  1. Trained in every pace.
    • I, who found it hard matter to keep up my less thoroughpaced steed with the speed of her perfect little Pegasus, […]1859, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Old Country House, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (1859), page 55
  2. Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
    • [T]he terrors of superior authority were plainly perceivable in his features, and in less than three months he became a thorough-paced husband.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  3. Complete, total.
    • The improbability of a thoroughpaced scoundrel writing daily elaborate confessions of his criminality to a friend, even when the friend condemns him, expatiating upon atrocities that deserved hanging, and justifying his vices on principle, is rather too glaring to be admissible.1892, Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, Volume I, Smith, Elder, & Co., page 87

Forms of thorough-paced

comparativemore thorough-paced
superlativemost thorough-paced

Questions about thorough-paced

What is thorough-paced the alternative form of?
Thorough-paced is the alternative form of thoroughpaced.

Words near thorough-paced in the dictionary

  1. thorosteenstrupines
  2. thorotrast
  3. thorough
  4. thorough-
  5. thorough-going
  6. thorough-paced
  7. thorough-stitch
  8. thoroughbass
  9. thoroughbasses
  10. thoroughbrace
  11. thoroughbraces

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