English

Adjective

thoroughpaced ‎(comparative more thoroughpaced, superlative most thoroughpaced)

1. (of a horse) Trained in every pace.
   • 1859, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Old Country House, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge (1859), page 55:

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

2. Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
   • 1800, Anonymous, "Account of the Author", in Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, J. Cundee (1800), page xvi:

     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. […]

3. Complete, total.
   • 1892, Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, Volume I, Smith, Elder, & Co. (1892), page 87:

     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.

   • 1901, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, Henry Holt and Company (1901), page 349:

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:thoroughpaced.