thoroughsped
adjEtymology From thorough + sped.
- 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 country1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret:
- Never upon me / Had she thrown look of love so thoroughsped!1898, Thomas Hardy, “The Burghers”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 58: