thoroughsped
English
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editthoroughsped (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
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hardy to this entry?)
References
edit- “thoroughsped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.