'Elaborating' definitions:

Definition of 'Elaborating'

From: GCIDE
  • Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, 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]

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