Dictionary entry

Elaborate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.