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Definition of Elaborating
1. elaborate [v] - See also: elaborate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elaborating
Literary usage of Elaborating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The essays, orations, and poems followed, developing and elaborating the same
spiritual and heroic philosophy, applying it to life, history, and literature, ..."
2. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"All those writers, however justly celebrated, who have employed much learning,
in elaborating points which add little to the practical wisdom or virtue of ..."
3. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"... genius," he says, " is not shown in elaborating a picture: we have had many
specimens of this sort of work in modern poems, where all is so ..."
4. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"Imagination Necessary in elaborating as well as in Originating Represen- tative
Forms of Expression—Methods of Composing Music—Poetry— Painting, Sculpture, ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"The copper operated upon was from Chili. small quantities from the food, is stored
up in this strange manner in the system of the animal, thus elaborating ..."
6. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative æsthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"... the Sake of the Form—The Arts Represent Thought and Feeling through elaborating
Natural Forms Appealing to the Ear and Eye—Illustrations—The Artist Uses ..."
7. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"Meanwhile, without taking part in the controversy, John Locke had been quietly
elaborating his theory. The unpublished " Essay concerning Toleration ..."
8. The Principles of Psychology by John Bascom (1869)
"The second carries on and sustains the processes of reflection concerning these,
elaborating them into knowledge, experience. The third furnishes those ..."
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