Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which elaborates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, elaborates.

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  • noun One who, or that which, elaborates.

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Examples

  • "elaborator" to introduce the then current legend of the Virgin Birth, borrowed from pagan sources.

    Mystic Christianity William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated with elaborator ceremonies.

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2007 2007

  • I don't mean to set him us an arbiter of everything, which I don't think we need, but more as a keeper (and elaborator) of this one (very full) idea, the old and ever current notion of the novel, which I think we do.

    IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005

  • A more systematic elaborator of the impetus concept was John Buridan, rector of the University of Paris and founder of a school there that soon rivaled in impor - tance the school of Bradwardine at Oxford.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • He already suggests the classical definition found in eighteenth-century writings by attributing greater ingenium to the inventor of new melodies than to the contrapuntal elaborator of a given melody.

    MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968

  • On Hegel as an elaborator and critic of Kant's theory of antinomy see M. Gueroult, “Le jugement de Hegel sur l'antithétique de la raison pure,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 38 (1931), 413-39.

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • His character and his qualifications as man of action and elaborator had not always been appraised quite correctly during his lifetime, and they are a subject of differences of opinion still.

    Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

  • "T he great elaborator: Obama gives 17 minute answer to health care query in NC".

    The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics Chris Edelson 2010

  • "T he great elaborator: Obama gives 17 minute answer to health care query in NC".

    The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics Chris Edelson 2010

  • The great elaborator: Obama gives 17-minute answer to health-care query in N.C. He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

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