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<hw>E*lab"o*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elaboratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>elaborare</ets> to work out; <ets>e</ets> out + <ets>laborare</ets> to labor, <ets>labor</ets> labor. See <er>Labor</er>.]</ety> <def>Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; <as>as, an <ex>elaborate</ex> discourse; an <ex>elaborate</ex> performance; <ex>elaborate</ex> research.</as></def>

<blockquote>Drawn to the life in each <b>elaborate</b> page. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>E*lab"o*rate*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>E*lab"o*rate*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Elaborate</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab"o*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Elaborated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Elaborating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To produce with labor</def>

<blockquote>They in full joy <b>elaborate</b> a sigh, <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; <as>as, to <ex>elaborate</ex> a painting or a literary work</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The sap is . . . still more <b>elaborated</b> and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Elaboration</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab`o*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elaboratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82laboration</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; <as>as, the <ex>elaboration</ex> of food into chyme; the <ex>elaboration</ex> of chyle, or sap, or tissues.</as></def>

<h1>Elaborative</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab"o*ra*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.</def>

<cs><col>Elaborative faculty</col> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld>, <cd>the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.</cd></cs>

<h1>Elaborator</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab"o*ra`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, elaborates.</def>

<h1>Elaboratory</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab"o*ra*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to elaborate.</def>

<h1>Elaboratory</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*lab"o*ra*to*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A laboratory.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>El\'91agnus</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E`l\'91*ag"nus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a B\'d2otian marsh plant; <?/ olive + <?/ sacred, pure.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.</def>

<h1>El\'91is</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E*l\'91"is</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ olive tree.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of palms.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>El\'91is Guineensis</i>, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.</note>