单词 | allaborate |
释义 | allaboratev. transitive. To produce or develop (greatly) by labour; to enlarge upon. Cf. elaborate v.Esp. in form alaborate, some examples may show a misspelling of or typographical error for elaborate v. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Allaborate, to labour vehemently, to encrease a thing by labour. 1781 Gibbons's Mourning Saint among Willows (new ed.) xlii. 58 My tongue, the dignified organ of my frame, allaborates constant praises. 1871 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Nov. He alaborated the points enumerated above. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 34 234 Something so vile that Horace has put it in the lowest sink of one of his malodorous epodes—a thing not to be elaborated, or rather allaborated, orally or otherwise. 1947 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 19 Mar. 1/3 He did not alaborate further on that statement. 1995 D. A. West in tr. Horace Odes 192 To allaborate the point, we look back at apparatus, a compound of parare, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1656 |
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