thoroughsped

English

Alternative forms

• through sped, thorough-sped

Etymology

From thorough +‎ sped.

Adjective

thoroughsped (comparative more thoroughsped, superlative most thoroughsped)

1. (obsolete, rare) 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

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References

• “thoroughsped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.