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thoroughpaced

thoroughpaced adjective: trained in every pace.

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
    • Wood's character of him is, that — "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. […]1800, Anonymous, "Account of the Author", in Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, J. Cundee (1800), page xvi
  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
    • […] but Swinburne was perhaps the first thoroughpaced disciple of the French romantic school.1901, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, Henry Holt and Company, page 349

Forms of thoroughpaced

comparativemore thoroughpaced
superlativemost thoroughpaced

Origin of thoroughpaced

From thorough + paced.

Questions about thoroughpaced

What does thoroughpaced mean?
Thoroughpaced means trained in every pace.
What part of speech is thoroughpaced?
Thoroughpaced is an adjective.

Words near thoroughpaced in the dictionary

  1. thoroughlane
  2. thoroughlanes
  3. thoroughly
  4. thoroughness
  5. thoroughnesses
  6. thoroughpaced
  7. thoroughpass
  8. thoroughpasses
  9. thoroughpin
  10. thoroughpins
  11. thoroughs

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