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; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.

-- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elaborated p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating ] 1. To produce with labor [ 1913 Webster ]

They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration. ] 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, elaborates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to elaborate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A laboratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inelaboratus. See In- not, and Elaborate. ] Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
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See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
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See elective.
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See emotional.
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See endurable.
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See evangelical.
See eventful.
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See fatherly.
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See fermentable.
See festival.
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See full.
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