Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Elaborate

Elaborate , adjective

[Latin elaboratus, past participle of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor.]

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. — Waller

Elaborate , transitive verb

1.
To produce with labor
They in full joy elaborate a sigh, — Young
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