elaborateadj.

/ɪˈlabərət/

Etymology: < Latin ēlabōrātus, past participle of ēlabōrāre to elaborate v.

†I. As past participle.

1. = elaborated adj.: see elaborate v. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. G1^v The booke..was none of his writing..it was elaborate before, by the..studie of all the best learned Iesuites.

II. As adjective.

2. Produced or accomplished by labour. Also, that has been subjected to processes of art; = elaborated adj. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together

positivec1385

artificial?c1425

craftlya1492

wroughta1500

preparated1569

made1580

elaborate1583

elaborate1592

elaborated1596

handmade1603

arted1606

factitiousa1624

made-up1677

fictitious1686

man-madea1718

got-up1793

gotten-up1796

canned1878

artefact1909

prefabricated1935

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > accomplished with much labour

busy1448

laboured1566

elaborate1592

pumped1731

labour-intensive1928

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F2 ^v Some elaborate pollished Poem.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 34 The Gray..leaueth her elaborate house to the Fox.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 360 The vast unnumber'd store Of steel elab'rate, and refulgent ore.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 152 He has no elegancies either lucky or elaborate.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 152 Eyeing the elaborate steel.

a. Worked out in much detail; highly finished.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [adjective] > artistically executed or ornamented

wrought1455

elaborated1596

conceited1598

elaborate1621

wroughted1656

exact1667

high-wrought1684

inextricable1692

worked1696

fancied1709

high-finished1744

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail > characterized by scrupulous care > worked out in great detail

curious1561

elaborate1621

nice-driven1630

elaborative1845

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > skilfully made or wrought > and elaborate

curiousc1384

exquisite1561

Daedalian1607

pandaedalian1618

elaborate1621

daedala1649

inextricable1692

Bezaleelian1878

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > elaborate

curious1561

set1573

elaborated1596

composeda1616

elaborate1621

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 351 Those elaborate Maps of Ortelius.

1687 Penal Laws 22 A..veneration for his Learned and Elabourate Works.

1704 C. Davenant Let. 15 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) IV. 244 I had prepared a very elaborate letter to Her Royal Highness.

1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised ii. 71 In the same flower we apparently have elaborate contrivances for directly opposed objects.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 108 He then proceeds to give another and more elaborate explanation of the whole passage.

1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. v. 393 In scientific pursuits the preparations are usually elaborate.

b. Of an investigation, a study, an operation, etc.: Conducted with great minuteness. Hence transferred applied to personal agents or their attributes: Minutely careful, painstaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail

curious1570

nice1589

particular1616

scrupulous1638

elaborate1649

morose1695

minutiose1868

minutious1891

meticulous1952

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail > characterized by scrupulous care

curious1526

scrupulous1638

elaborate1649

minutious1779

nail-paring1996

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 31 The King was so emphatical and elaborat on this Theam against Tumults.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. ii. 28 Amongst the Ancients, none have spent more elaborate studies herein than Eusebius.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 37 He was a most curious and elaborate Collector of valuable Histories.

1778 V. Knox Ess. I. xxxviii. 305 From the annals of the elaborate Mattaire.

a1836 W. Godwin Ess. (1873) 193 The world is busy and elaborate to tear him from my recollection.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 81 He read Shakespeare, and made an elaborate study of his method.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

elaboratev.

/ɪˈlabəreɪt/

Etymology: < Latin ēlabōrāt- participial stem of ēlabōrāre to work out, produce by labour, < ē out + labōrāre to labour v.Sense 2 may probably be the earliest in English from the use of the Latin word by writers on alchemy or medicine. Compare French élaborer , 16th cent. (Littré) = sense 2.

1. To produce or develop by the application of labour; to fashion (a product of art or industry) from the raw material; to work out in detail, give finish or completeness to (an invention, a theory, literary or artistic work, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form

i-schapeOE

shapeOE

markc1330

forge1382

kneadc1400

frame?1518

fashion?1553

labour1578

appropriate1594

to shape out1600

elaborate1611

produce1611

moulda1616

fabric1623

coin1627

timber1646

laborate1662

condition1853

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)]

i-wurchec888

makeeOE

workOE

dighta1175

outworka1325

forge1382

tiffa1400

fabricate1598

elaborate1611

produce1612

manufacture1648

to work off1653

output1858

productionize1939

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Elabourer, to elaborate.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Elaborate, to do a thing with great paines.

1727 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire V 1 Attend, and you discern it [sc. ambition] in the Fair Conduct a Finger..; Or in full joy elaborate a Sigh.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 85 The objects of landscape may be either elaborated or suggested according to their place and claim.

1850 W. E. Gladstone Remarks Royal Supremacy 49 The constitutional system which was gradually elaborated and matured in England.

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. v. 199 Hooker..elaborates his theory from his own reason.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 390 Little things are elaborated with an infinity of pains.

2. transferred. Of nature or natural agencies: To produce (a chemical substance) from (its) elements or sources; to fashion or develop (an animal or vegetable tissue, etc.); also, to transmute (crude materials) into a developed product.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [verb (transitive)]

elabour1543

elaborate1607

concoct1626

excern1626

secrete1707

animalize1772

laborate1830

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 54 Nothing elaborates our concoction more then sleepe.

1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F3 Honey..is elaborated by the Bee.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 81 If the waters be saltish, pure and clear,..then a pure Metal is generated; but in defect of purity an Impure Metal, in elaborating of which, Nature spreadeth..a thousand years.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §87 The animal spirits are elaborated from the blood.

1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 211 As well might it be imagined, that the roots elaborate it [the sap] in the leaves.

1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 341 The Sun, under whose influence one plant elaborates nutriment for man, and another poison.

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings x. 194 Year after year..the leaf is elaborating from air and rain and sunshine..those solid structures which are destined to outlive it.

3. intransitive. To become elaborate.

ΚΠ

1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. I. §103 This custom elaborates as social development goes through its earlier stages.

1903 R. Langbridge Flame & Flood xx These [sc. preparations] she discovered had augmented and elaborated to a considerable extent.

Draft additions 1993

b. intransitive. To explain something in detail; also, to enlarge or expatiate on.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > expatiate

dilate1562

expatiate1612

enlarge1659

elaborate1934

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Elaborate, to dwell at length upon a theme.

1970 D. Jacobson Rape of Tamar iv. 53 I don't need to elaborate on how difficult it was for anything clandestine to take place in that part of the palace.

1984 P. Ackroyd T. S. Eliot iii. 75 He did not develop as a ‘thinker’: he merely elaborated on the implications of his previous convictions.

1987 Nucleonics Week 17 Dec. 9 Neither Bryne nor a SMUD spokesperson elaborated.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	elaborate
释义	elaborateadj. /ɪˈlabərət/ Etymology: < Latin ēlabōrātus, past participle of ēlabōrāre to elaborate v. †I. As past participle. 1. = elaborated adj.: see elaborate v. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. G1^v The booke..was none of his writing..it was elaborate before, by the..studie of all the best learned Iesuites. II. As adjective. 2. Produced or accomplished by labour. Also, that has been subjected to processes of art; = elaborated adj. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together positivec1385 artificial?c1425 craftlya1492 wroughta1500 preparated1569 made1580 elaborate1583 elaborate1592 elaborated1596 handmade1603 arted1606 factitiousa1624 made-up1677 fictitious1686 man-madea1718 got-up1793 gotten-up1796 canned1878 artefact1909 prefabricated1935 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > accomplished with much labour busy1448 laboured1566 elaborate1592 pumped1731 labour-intensive1928 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F2 ^v Some elaborate pollished Poem. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 34 The Gray..leaueth her elaborate house to the Fox. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 360 The vast unnumber'd store Of steel elab'rate, and refulgent ore. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 152 He has no elegancies either lucky or elaborate. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 152 Eyeing the elaborate steel. 3. a. Worked out in much detail; highly finished. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [adjective] > artistically executed or ornamented wrought1455 elaborated1596 conceited1598 elaborate1621 wroughted1656 exact1667 high-wrought1684 inextricable1692 worked1696 fancied1709 high-finished1744 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail > characterized by scrupulous care > worked out in great detail curious1561 elaborate1621 nice-driven1630 elaborative1845 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > having practical, operative, or constructive skill > skilfully made or wrought > and elaborate curiousc1384 exquisite1561 Daedalian1607 pandaedalian1618 elaborate1621 daedala1649 inextricable1692 Bezaleelian1878 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > elaborate curious1561 set1573 elaborated1596 composeda1616 elaborate1621 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 351 Those elaborate Maps of Ortelius. 1687 Penal Laws 22 A..veneration for his Learned and Elabourate Works. 1704 C. Davenant Let. 15 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) IV. 244 I had prepared a very elaborate letter to Her Royal Highness. 1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised ii. 71 In the same flower we apparently have elaborate contrivances for directly opposed objects. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 108 He then proceeds to give another and more elaborate explanation of the whole passage. 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) x. v. 393 In scientific pursuits the preparations are usually elaborate. b. Of an investigation, a study, an operation, etc.: Conducted with great minuteness. Hence transferred applied to personal agents or their attributes: Minutely careful, painstaking. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail curious1570 nice1589 particular1616 scrupulous1638 elaborate1649 morose1695 minutiose1868 minutious1891 meticulous1952 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > scrupulously careful or attentive to detail > characterized by scrupulous care curious1526 scrupulous1638 elaborate1649 minutious1779 nail-paring1996 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 31 The King was so emphatical and elaborat on this Theam against Tumults. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. ii. 28 Amongst the Ancients, none have spent more elaborate studies herein than Eusebius. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 37 He was a most curious and elaborate Collector of valuable Histories. 1778 V. Knox Ess. I. xxxviii. 305 From the annals of the elaborate Mattaire. a1836 W. Godwin Ess. (1873) 193 The world is busy and elaborate to tear him from my recollection. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 81 He read Shakespeare, and made an elaborate study of his method. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). elaboratev. /ɪˈlabəreɪt/ Etymology: < Latin ēlabōrāt- participial stem of ēlabōrāre to work out, produce by labour, < ē out + labōrāre to labour v.Sense 2 may probably be the earliest in English from the use of the Latin word by writers on alchemy or medicine. Compare French élaborer , 16th cent. (Littré) = sense 2. 1. To produce or develop by the application of labour; to fashion (a product of art or industry) from the raw material; to work out in detail, give finish or completeness to (an invention, a theory, literary or artistic work, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > fashion, shape, or form i-schapeOE shapeOE markc1330 forge1382 kneadc1400 frame?1518 fashion?1553 labour1578 appropriate1594 to shape out1600 elaborate1611 produce1611 moulda1616 fabric1623 coin1627 timber1646 laborate1662 condition1853 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > manufacture or produce [verb (transitive)] i-wurchec888 makeeOE workOE dighta1175 outworka1325 forge1382 tiffa1400 fabricate1598 elaborate1611 produce1612 manufacture1648 to work off1653 output1858 productionize1939 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Elabourer, to elaborate. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Elaborate, to do a thing with great paines. 1727 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire V 1 Attend, and you discern it [sc. ambition] in the Fair Conduct a Finger..; Or in full joy elaborate a Sigh. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 85 The objects of landscape may be either elaborated or suggested according to their place and claim. 1850 W. E. Gladstone Remarks Royal Supremacy 49 The constitutional system which was gradually elaborated and matured in England. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. v. 199 Hooker..elaborates his theory from his own reason. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 390 Little things are elaborated with an infinity of pains. 2. transferred. Of nature or natural agencies: To produce (a chemical substance) from (its) elements or sources; to fashion or develop (an animal or vegetable tissue, etc.); also, to transmute (crude materials) into a developed product. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [verb (transitive)] elabour1543 elaborate1607 concoct1626 excern1626 secrete1707 animalize1772 laborate1830 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 54 Nothing elaborates our concoction more then sleepe. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F3 Honey..is elaborated by the Bee. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 81 If the waters be saltish, pure and clear,..then a pure Metal is generated; but in defect of purity an Impure Metal, in elaborating of which, Nature spreadeth..a thousand years. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §87 The animal spirits are elaborated from the blood. 1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 211 As well might it be imagined, that the roots elaborate it [the sap] in the leaves. 1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 341 The Sun, under whose influence one plant elaborates nutriment for man, and another poison. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings x. 194 Year after year..the leaf is elaborating from air and rain and sunshine..those solid structures which are destined to outlive it. 3. intransitive. To become elaborate. ΚΠ 1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. I. §103 This custom elaborates as social development goes through its earlier stages. 1903 R. Langbridge Flame & Flood xx These [sc. preparations] she discovered had augmented and elaborated to a considerable extent. Draft additions 1993 b. intransitive. To explain something in detail; also, to enlarge or expatiate on. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > expatiate dilate1562 expatiate1612 enlarge1659 elaborate1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Elaborate, to dwell at length upon a theme. 1970 D. Jacobson Rape of Tamar iv. 53 I don't need to elaborate on how difficult it was for anything clandestine to take place in that part of the palace. 1984 P. Ackroyd T. S. Eliot iii. 75 He did not develop as a ‘thinker’: he merely elaborated on the implications of his previous convictions. 1987 Nucleonics Week 17 Dec. 9 Neither Bryne nor a SMUD spokesperson elaborated. 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