a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. [ 1913 Webster ]
Elaborative faculty (Metaph.),
a. [ L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor. ] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking;
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.
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v. t.
They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor. ] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking;
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.
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v. t.
They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]