Thoroughpaced

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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, […]"

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

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"I, who found it hard matter to keep up my less thoroughpaced steed with the speed of her perfect little Pegasus, […]"

Etymology

From thorough + paced.

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