ELABORATE Copy link • ELABORATE 1. v. aliquid conficere, perficere (complete): scribere: condere (compose): commentari. ☞ Not elaborare aliquid, which is found only in a doubtful passage in the elder Pliny. The verb itself is found in classical prose only in infinitive and perfect participle passive. Elaborated, etc.: Vid: ELABORATE. 2. adj., magno labore confectus (in a good sense): operose perfectus (Hirt., B.G., 8, prooem.): anxius: nimius: *nimia diligentia elaboratus perfectus: perpolitus: nimis exquisitus (e.g., munditia). Elaborate elegance of style, anxia orationis elegantia (Gell.). An elaborate work, liber diligenter accurateque scriptus. Accurate without being painfully elaborate, accuratus et sine molestia diligens (e.g., elegantia, Cic., Brut., 38).