a. Also β. 7 through-paced. [f. THOROUGH adv. + PACED.]
1. lit. Of a horse: Thoroughly trained; having all his paces. rare. ? Obs.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Huntington. (1662), II. 51. It is given to thorough-paced-Naggs, that amble naturally, to trip much whilest artificial pacers goe surest on foot.
β. 1668. Lond. Gaz., No. 272/4. A Baye Mare,… flat ribb’d, Roach back’d, through paced.
2. fig. Thoroughly trained or accomplished, perfectly skilled or versed (in something); hence, thoroughgoing, complete, perfect, thorough.
1646. Jenkyn, Remora, 18. The thorow-pac’d Politician borrows this of the Atheist.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 30. 382. Anaxagoras … was severely taxed … as one not thorough-paced in Theism.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, 114. A thoro’-pac’d villain.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, an. 1681 (1823), II. 278. Men of a thorough-paced obsequiousness.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Old Margate Hoy. A hearty thorough-paced liar.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lvi. VII. 132. Introducing more thorough-paced oligarchy into the already oligarchical Sikyônian government.
1893. Spectator, 28 Jan., 101/2. A thorough-paced English gentleman.
β. 1655. Fuller, Church Hist., I. iv. § 13. Constantius was a through-paced Christian.
1658. Phillips, Dict., Ded. An universally through-pac’t Dictionary.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Huntington. (1662), II. 50. He was through-paced in three Tongues, Latine, Greek … and Hebrew.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 535. Robert Burton … was … a thro-pac’d Philologist.
So † Thorough-pace v. Obs. intr. of a horse; † Thorough-pacer, a horse having all his paces.
1684. Lond. Gaz., No. 1945/4. A bay Nag … seven years old, a thorough pacer. Ibid. (1690), No. 2545/4. A light sorrel Gelding,… walks, thorough-paces and gallops.
