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/ɪlˈæbrət/ /ɪlˈæbərˌeɪt/ Listen

Elaborate

adjective

1.

Marked by complexity and richness of detail. Synonym: luxuriant.

2.

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail. Synonyms: detailed, elaborated. "The elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion" , "The carefully elaborated theme"

verb

(past & past part. elaborated; pres. part. elaborating)

1.

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate.

2.

Produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product.

3.

Make more complex, intricate, or richer. Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine.

4.

Work out in detail. Synonym: work out.

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"Elaborate" Quotes from Famous Books

... were destined to be before the fall of feudalism, by the king's officers and the men of the land in the king's absence. To determine the causes of this insurrection, we need to read between the lines of the story as it is told us by the writers of that and the next age. Elaborate reasons for their hostility to William's government were put into the mouths of the conspirators by one of these writers, but these would mean nothing more than a general statement that the king was a very severe and stern ruler, if it were not for the more specific accusation that he had rewarded ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... sculan do not often connote simple futurity in Early West Saxon, yet they were fast drifting that way. The Mn.E. use of shall only with the 1st person and will only with the 2d and 3d, to express simple futurity, was wholly unknown even in Shakespeare's day. The elaborate distinctions drawn between these words by modern grammarians are not only cumbersome and foreign to the genius of English, but equally ...

— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith

... I can not here elaborate the evidence upon which moral idealism is grounded; but it might be broadly classified as ethical, cosmological, and historical. The ethical ground of moral idealism is the virtual unity of life, the working therein of one eventual purpose sustained by the good-will of all moral beings. ...

— The Moral Economy • Ralph Barton Perry

... construction, however—those that still kept well within constructional expediency—were doubtless covered with a coating of plaster where they occurred inside of the rooms. At Tusayan and Cibola, on the other hand, the tendency has been rather to elaborate the plastic element of the masonry. The nearly universal use of adobe is undoubtedly largely responsible for the more slovenly methods of building now in vogue, as it effectually conceals careless construction. ...

— A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola • Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff

... Museum in its Van Dycks. Besides those incomparable portraits of Lady Oxford, of Liberti the Organist of Antwerp, and others better than the best of any other man, there are a few large and elaborate compositions such as I have never seen elsewhere. The principal one is the Capture of Christ by Night in the Garden of Gethsemane, which has all the strength of Rubens, with a more refined study of attitudes ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

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