Syn.
— Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
— E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv.
— E*lab"o*rate*ness, n.
ELABORATE
E*lab"o*rate, v. t. [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.
ELABORATED elaborated adj.
Defn: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the
carefully elaborated theme.
Syn. — detailed, elaborate.
[WordNet 1.5]
ELABORATION
E*lab`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: 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.