α. 1600s through-formed.
β. 1600s 1800s thorough-formed.
† thorough-formedadj.
Obsolete.
Thoroughly formed, full-grown.
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1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 542 Who are so through-formed [cited in R. C. Conformists Charity to Dissenters (1689) as thorough formed] Christians as cordially to believe all the Essential Parts of our Religion.
1853 R. W. Morgan Raymond de Monthault III. viii. 269 The marble-dured flesh, the erect, expanded chest of the thorough-formed man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1664- book of responde
- book of revelations
- book of rules
- book of sederunt
- book of service
- book of sights
- book of subsidy
- book of the covenant
- book of the dead
- book of the film
- book of the month
- book of words
- book off
- book out
- book ownership
- book package
- book packet
- book page
- book piles
- book pocket
- book post
- book postage
- book prayer
- book preservation
- book printer