The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elaborative
Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
Wiktionary
elaborative
a. Serving to elaborate.
Usage examples of "elaborative".
In the direction of the musically elaborative element we have the schools of the Netherlands and of Italy, in which absolutely everything of this kind was realized which modern art can show, saving perhaps the fugue, which involved questions of tonality belonging to a grade of taste and harmonic perception more advanced and refined than that as yet attained.