thoroughsped

English

Etymology

thorough +‎ sped

Adjective

thoroughsped (comparative more thoroughsped, superlative most thoroughsped)

1. (obsolete) Fully accomplished.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret:

     Our thoroughsped republick of whigs, which contains the bulk of all hopers, pretenders, expecters, and professors, are beyond all doubt most highly useful to princes, to governors, to great ministers, and to their country

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “thoroughsped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)