資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.]
   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.