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Elaborated

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.

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elaborated
  1. (context rhetoric English) expanded v

  2. (en-past of: elaborate)

WordNet
elaborated

adj. 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]

Usage examples of "elaborated".

These patterns are abstracted for the most part from leaves and flowers - the rose, the lotus, the acanthus, palm, papyrus - and are elaborated, with recurrences and variations, into something transportingly reminiscent of the living geometries of the Other World.

Short-chain aliphatic compounds are elaborated by female monkeys in response to estradiol, and these are of consuming interest to the males.

It does not assume that literary criticism has a scientific method and it does not rely on any elaborated explanatory theory, such as existentialist philosophy, Marxist politics, or Freudian psychoanalysis.

In that world the soul has elaborated its creation, the images of the gods, dwellings for men, each existing to some peculiar purpose.

This thought gave me pause, or at least a lash of sentimental static that was not quite elaborated into a thought: the wonder that living oaken tissue could be so patient and obedient to its built-in triadic rhythm, responding to the tiny distortions of its oversized cells.

He drew the pathways of the light rays from the anus to the eyeballs and back, splitting it into colorful rainbows and sophisticated spectra which he elaborated with multivariate complex equations and graphs.

Age of European Predominance, lost its defining lines, lost its contrasted cultures and its elaborated traditions, and ceased to divide the allegiance and devotion of men of goodwill.

Classical theory of money and prices was elaborated during a well-known series of historical experiences.

And on the other side while Tyrer painfully re-tied the loincloth and put on the kimono, Hiraga elaborated on the theme that the Bakufu were evil, they would cast the blame elsewhere, on ronin, the shishi but they had planned and precipitated it, Anjo, the Elders and especially Yoshi.

Their simple garments, stitched together from skins of small animals, had been elaborated.

This admission to Rationalism has been eagerly seized by the Coleridgean school, and elaborated in some of their writings.

If, on the other hand, he delivered different sections of it at different times and places, how could he have elaborated the variations on theme and formula and the inner structural correspondences that distinguish the Homeric epics so sharply from the Yugoslav texts collected by Parry and Lord?

There were references to Hermetics, and the Canopy, and the Mulch, and sometimes to something called the Game, but none of these terms were elaborated upon.

There is a possibility that it was simply a case of hydatidiform or multiple molar pregnancy, elaborated by an exhaustive imagination and superstitious awe.

In that world the soul has elaborated its creation, the images of the gods, dwellings for men, each existing to some peculiar purpose.