Citations:thoroughpaced

Adjective: "(of a horse) trained in every pace"

 * 1844 — Anonymous, Edith Leslie, T. C. Newby (1844), page 55:
 * "Show me a more beautiful creature than the race-horse," added Barrett, "a more noble and thoroughpaced animal than the hunting-horse!"
 * 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,
 * 1963 — Katherine Anne Porter, The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, Dell (1963), page 13:
 * He had been a fine, thorough-paced horse once, but he was now a weary, disheartened old hero, gray-haired on his jaw and chin, who spent his life nuzzling with pendulous lips for tender bits of grass

Adjective: "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.

Adjective: "complete, total"

 * 1847 — "The Emerald Studs", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, August 1847, page 218:
 * And certainly, if the indictment contained a true statement of the facts, James M'Wilkin, or Wilkinson, or Wilson was about as thoroughpaced a marauder as ever perambulated a common.
 * 1848 — Thomas Babington Macauley, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume 2, Porter & Coates, Chapter IX:
 * The thoroughpaced disciples of Filmer, indeed, maintained that there was no difference whatever between the polity of our country and that of Turkey,
 * 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.
 * 1895 — Frank Barrett, A Set of Rogues, Chapter XXIV:
 * Look at it how I might, this business wore a most curst aspect, to be sure; nor could I regard myself as anything but a thoroughpaced rogue.
 * 1901 — Louis Becke, Tessa, Unwin Brothers (1901), Chapter VI:
 * Hendry made no answer to the second mate's remarks, which were accompanied by a considerable number of oaths and much vigorous blasphemy; for the honest-hearted Atkins detested both his captain and the supercargo most fervently, as a pair of thoroughpaced villains.
 * 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.
 * 1901 — David Christie Murray, Despair's Last Journey, Chapter XIX:
 * A more thoroughpaced small coquette than La Femme Incomprise never breathed, yet she must needs be a holy angel for the time being to Paul Armstrong, because she had fine eyes and teeth, and could talk with some eloquence about heart-sorrows she had never known.
 * 1905 — Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries, Smith, Elder, & Co. (1905), page 292:
 * Sometimes the State, under a strong man like Morton, or James Stewart, Earl of Arran (a thoroughpaced ruffian), put down these pretensions of the Church.