E-lăb'o-ra-tĭve, a.

a. Serving or tending to elaborate; working out by successive processes and with care; constructing with labor and minute attention to details; developing and carefully finishing step by step.

Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the understanding of the German philosophers; the discursive faculty; thought.