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Elaborated

adjective

1.

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail. Synonyms: detailed, elaborate. "The elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion" , "The carefully elaborated theme"

Elaborate

verb

(past & past part. elaborated; pres. part. elaborating)

1.

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate.

2.

Produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product.

3.

Make more complex, intricate, or richer. Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine.

4.

Work out in detail. Synonym: work out.

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... menacing voice he read the orders—orders which set forth exactly and minutely when a guard should come on duty and when he should be relieved, what reports he should prepare, and what he was to observe amongst the prisoners. Finally, having elaborated a number of minor points, it set forth the orders ...

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... American Constitution were far from wishing or intending to found a democracy in the strict sense of the word, though, as was inevitable, every expansion of the scheme of government they elaborated has been in a democratical direction. But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of ...

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... again. A dramatic criticism must be coherent; it must be unified. It must be the embodiment of a single idea about the play and every detail in the report must be attached to that idea. It is not sufficient to state the idea in a clever way; it must be expanded and elaborated with examples and reasons and must show careful thought. It is well to outline the report before it is written and to arrange a logical sequence of thought so that the result may be well-rounded ...

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... and cost the then Archbishop of York no less a sum than 4000 marks. Macpherson remarks on this great display of silk as a proof of the wealth of England under the Norman kings, apoint which has not been sufficiently elaborated. In 1242 the streets of London were covered or shaded with silk, for the reception of Richard, the King's brother, on his return from the Holy Land. Few Englishmen are aware of the existence of such magnificence at that early period; while every story-book of history gives us the reverse ...

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