fullmade

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adjective

Complete; fully made; perfected.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivefullmade (comparative more fullmade, superlative most fullmade)

comparative more fullmade · superlative most fullmade · alternative full-made

  1. Complete; fully made; perfected.

    And, you know, I am tall and fullmade, and he was but a little, wiry, short old man.

    1958, Victoria Lincoln, A dangerous innocence
    3 more examples

    "With a fullmade machine we concern ourselves, he says, only with what it can do, but this with this growing machine it is important that we have some control over its construction, and the poet's, who see something of man's nature, can best help as by imparting to us their gift of sight."

    1893, Thomas Marc Parrott, An examination of the non-dramatic poems

    He must be "roundly turned" — "full-made" as the dealers say — with good length, standing over plenty of ground, and with a smoothly-flowing top line from his well-formed, well-set ears to his high- carried tail; well sprung in his ribs [...]

    1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Country life: Volume 11

    He exemplifies the close, full-made form and high action of the show type, but has unusual bone and muscular development in his comparatively short legs.

    1914, Carl Warren Gay, Principles & practice of judging live-stock

Origin

  1. Middle Englishfulmade
  2. Englishfullmade

From Middle English fulmade, volmad (“accomplished, perfected”), past participle of fulmaken (“to accomplish, perfect”), equivalent to full + made. Cognate with Dutch volmaakt (“perfect, complete”).

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