elaborating

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]

1.To produce with labor [1913 Webster]

They in full joy elaborate a sigh,— Young.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.— Arbuthnot.[1913 Webster]
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