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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ELABORATIVE
ELABORATIVE
E *
lab
"o *
ra
*tive, a.
Defn:
Serving
or
tending
to
elaborate;
constructing
with
labor
and
minute
attention
to
details.
Elaborative
faculty
(Metaph.),
the
intellectual
power
of
discerning
relations
and
of
viewing
objects
by
means
of,
or
in,
relations;
the
discursive
faculty;
thought.