Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elaborately"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
{Labor}.]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.

Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
-- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

elaborately
adv : with elaboration; "it was elaborately spelled out" [syn: {intricately},
{in an elaborate way}]


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