Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an elaborate manner; with elaboration; with nice regard to exactness.

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  • adverb In an elaborate manner.

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  • adverb with elaboration

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Examples

  • Before the trial, he mailed off all his court documents to family members in elaborately decorated envelopes so prison personnel wouldn't read them.

    Scott Panetti 2010

  • In the corners, underneath pink bougainvillea, tamboras -- musicians garbed in elaborately decorate outfits -- play their instruments.

    Jerez, Zacatecas: a magical town 2008

  • A particular gem is 'Cookery Illustrated & Household Mangement', which states "Do not attempt at any time to entertain elaborately without the help of a maid".

    Sepia-Toned Baking Peter Ashley 2008

  • He still dresses in elaborately detailed costumes when he gets home from preschool now but at the end of the day he actually folds them and puts them in the tickle trunk.

    To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • In the corners, underneath pink bougainvillea, tamboras -- musicians garbed in elaborately decorate outfits -- play their instruments.

    Jerez, Zacatecas: a magical town 2008

  • It has gone from marching bands and Up With People to attention-getting pop stars in elaborately produced spectacles.

    USATODAY.com - Jackson's halftime stunt fuels indecency debate 2004

  • Among the foremost rides a young woman in elaborately beaded buckskin dress.

    American Indian Stories 1921

  • Shaping the word elaborately, she made a wry face over it.

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

  • And this was a triumph of that not uncommon line of nursery policy which consists in elaborately misleading the infant mind for good.

    Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1869

  • But I read one story from a bride who recounted receiving a box of condoms as a wedding gift which seemed, pardon me, slightly tacky; or another who recalled the elaborately wrapped brick she received with a note that advised her to use it as a cornerstone when she built a house, which probably takes “practical” to a new level.

    The Art and Artistry of Wedding Gifts | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

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