The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thoroughpaced \Thor"ough*paced`\, a. Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.
If she be a thoroughplaced impostor.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a horse English) trained in every pace. 2 Extensively trained or schooled; knowledgeable; proficient. 3 complete, total.
Usage examples of "thoroughpaced".
Not so much HMS Surprise but Surprise as a letter of marque, sailing where she pleased and when she pleased, carrying on her private and effective war against the enemy as she saw fit, with a ship's company of picked hands, some of them very old friends indeed, all of them thoroughpaced seamen With such men, with such a status, and with such a second in command as Tom Pullings, there had been an easiness that could never be found in a King's ship nothing approaching a democracy, God forbid, but an atmosphere that made the regular Navy seem formal, starched, severe, and .
Not so much HMS Surprise but Surprise as a letter of marque, sailing where she pleased and when she pleased, carrying on her private and effective war against the enemy as she saw fit, with a ship's company of picked hands, some of them very old friends indeed, all of them thoroughpaced seamen With such men, with such a status, and with such a second in command as Tom Pullings, there had been an easiness that could never be found in a King's ship nothing approaching a democracy, God forbid, but an atmosphere that made the regular Navy seem formal, starched .