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To make (one) a doctor. He was bred . . . in Oxford and there doctorated. Fuller.

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious. [R.] Bacon.

The act of sweetening. [R.] Bacon.

An edulcorant remedy.

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.

The act of sweetening or edulcorating.

Tending to

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness. The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit. T. Moore.

or; 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.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

bles, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

One who, or that which, elaborates.

Tending to elaborate.

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.