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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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.

elaborative ‎(comparative more elaborative, superlative most elaborative)

Serving to elaborate.
- 2007 May 5, Nate Chinen, “A Young Saxophonist in Good Post-Bop Company”, in New York Times:
  On the complex workout “A Whole New You,” he shifted between percussive accents and elaborative filigree, in a way that matched the flow of Mr. Frahm’s solo.

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