Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Source : 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}]