ppl. a. [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. Drumm. of Hawth., 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.
