thoroughpaced

== English == === Etymology === From thorough +‎ paced. === Adjective === thoroughpaced (comparative more thoroughpaced, superlative most thoroughpaced) (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, […] 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. […] Complete, total. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:thoroughpaced.