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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 ]

n. [ L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration. ] 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) 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, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, elaborates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A laboratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to elaborate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a Bœotian marsh plant; &unr_; olive + &unr_; sacred, pure. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; olive tree. ] (Bot.) A genus of palms. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Elæis Guineensis, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]