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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elaborated
adjective: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme" [syn: {detailed}, {elaborate}]
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