Thoroughpaced
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Thoroughpaced is an adjective meaning (of a horse) Trained in every pace.
Meaning
(of a horse) Trained in every pace.
More Meanings
- Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
- Complete, total.
Example Sentences
[…] but Swinburne was perhaps the first thoroughpaced disciple of the French romantic school.
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. […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hot-blooded, trotty, prancy, rhythmed, pachydermic, fleet-footed.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.