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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Elaborate

E-lăb'o-rāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. ELABORATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ELABORATING.] [Lat. elaborare, elaboratum, from e, out, and laborare, to labor, from labor, q. v.; Fr. élaborer, Sp. elaborar, It. elaborare.]

Sense 1. To produce with labor.

They in full joy elaborate a sigh. Young.

Sense 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine by successive operations of nature or art; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.

The sap is . . . still more elaborated as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.

E-lăb’o-rate, a.

adjective

(45), a. [Lat. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance.

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

Synonyms—Labored; prepared; studied; perfected; high-wrought.