What is "semitrained"

Usage examples of "semitrained".

To be sure, she is only semitrained, and perhaps not yet fully broken to the collar.

I, semitrained, and a barbarian, had gone for more than twice that price!

To dismiss her thoughts in such a manner seemed ar­bitrary at best, especially when those thoughts sounded (to the semitrained ear, at any rate) as well reasoned as his own hypotheses.