thoroughsped
English
Alternative forms
- through sped, thorough-sped
Etymology
Adjective
thoroughsped (comparative more thoroughsped, superlative most thoroughsped)
- (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
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, “The Burghers”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 58:
- Never upon me / Had she thrown look of love so thoroughsped!
References
- “thoroughsped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.