a. [f. L. ēlabōrāt- ppl. stem of ēlabōrāre + -IVE.] That has the property of elaborating.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph. (1859), II. xx. 14. The Elaborative or Discursive Faculty.
1845. Florist Jrnl., 45. The elaborative organs of the plants.
1876. A. M. Fairbairn, in Contemp. Rev., June, 135. Ancient heresies were elaborative, modern disintegrative of dogma.
