elaborated, ppl. a.
(ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
That has been worked up, has undergone preparation or development; worked out in detail, finely wrought, etc. (see the vb.).
| 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxx. (1612) 295 One elaborated Pen compendiously doth floe. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Fam. Ep. Wks. (1711) 162 He doth it so finely as if he found such purposes in his way, and went not astray with a search too curiously elaborated. 1824 Dibdin Libr. Comp. 740 It is the most perfect and highly elaborated of all the author's pieces. 1879 Stainer Music of Bible 23 An instrument of a more elaborated character. |