ELABORATE (2)

elaborate (2). Elaborate, a. finished with exactness, studied

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E‐lab″o‐rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating (?).] 1. 1. To produce with labor
They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. 2. 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.