Meaning of thoroughpaced | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Trained in every pace.
2. Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
3. Complete, total.

Examples

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

“[T]he terrors of superior authority were plainly perceivable in his features, and in less than three months he became a thorough-paced husband.”

“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. […]”

“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.”

“[…] but Swinburne was perhaps the first thoroughpaced disciple of the French romantic school.”

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