Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.