thorough-pacedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 10, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

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