ELABORATE

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

2.
v.

To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young.

3.
v.

To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.


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