Elaborate — Defs

01 a. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate per…

1.
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.

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

02 v. t. To produce with labor

imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating

1.
To produce with labor
“They in full joy elaborate a sigh,” — Young.
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.
“The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.” — Arbuthnot.