elaborated

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elaborated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
     1. To produce with labor
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              They in full joy elaborate a sigh,    --Young.
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     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.
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              The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
              as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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elaborated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  elaborated
      adj 1: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a
             detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the
             inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the
             carefully elaborated theme" [syn: detailed,
             elaborate, elaborated]