Elaborative

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a.
     Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and
     minute attention to details.
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     {Elaborative faculty} (Metaph.), the intellectual power of


        discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of,
        or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
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