Definition of "thoroughpaced"
thoroughpaced
adjective
comparative more thoroughpaced, superlative most thoroughpaced
Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient.
Quotations
Wood's character of him is, that — "he was an exact mathematician, a curious calculator of nativities, a general read scholar, a thorough-paced philologist, and one that understood the surveying of lands well. […]
1800, Anonymous, "Account of the Author", in Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, J. Cundee (1800), page xvi
Quotations
The improbability of a thoroughpaced scoundrel writing daily elaborate confessions of his criminality to a friend, even when the friend condemns him, expatiating upon atrocities that deserved hanging, and justifying his vices on principle, is rather too glaring to be admissible.
1892, Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, Volume I, Smith, Elder, & Co., page 87