uneˈlaborate, a.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
| 1663 Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. vi. 159 Either simples, or cheap, or unelaborate Galenical mixtures. 1688 ― Final Causes Nat. Things ii. 44 Most of them..are of such easy and unelaborate contextures. 1747 Warburton in Shakespeare's Wks. VII. 349 The work of brief nature, i.e. of hasty, unelaborate nature. 1819 Wordsw. To Rev. Dr. Wordsw. 34 Whether the rich man's sumptuous gate Call forth the unelaborate sounds [etc.]. 1853 Ruskin Stones Ven. III. ii. 106 The comparatively Hebraized and unelaborate idiom. |