To labout or indenour diligently: to trauel or take paine: to work cunningly & exactely. Eniti & elaborare Cic. Elaborare ad iudicium alterius. Cic. To take paine to satissie ones indgement. Ex rēpore elaborare. Ci. Forthwith, or presently to endenor. De industria, non ex iusidijs, sed apertè ac palm elaborare. Cic. rare in aliquo. Quin. To tranalle or take paines in a matter. In his potissimum elaborabimus, Cicer, We shall take most paines in those. Elaborare in dilciplinis, & illis studere. Cic. In literis elaborare. Ci. To studie & take paines in learning. Desudare & claborare in re aliqua Ci. To trauaile and take paines. Contentione & dimicatione in re aliqua elaborare. Cicero. With earnest contention & indinout to trauel in a thing. In re aliqua separatim elaborare. Cic. Elaborare aliquid. Plin. To worke with cunning and diligence. vt, Candelabrorum superficiem claborauit. Elaborare & elucubrare. Cic. To make and write diligently. Elaborare & efficere. Cic. Elaborare saporem dicunrur epulæ. Horat. To prouoke one to haue an appetite. Instituere & elaborare orationem. Cic. Ornare & elaborare versus. Cic. To trimme and make persit his verses. Elaborari dicitur locus, qui ædificijs ornatur. Plin. iun. Non tam vt prosim causis, elaborare soleo, qum vt nequid obsim. Cic. I am not wont to trauaile so much to further causes, as, &c.

I. Neutr., to labor, endeavor, exert one's self, take pains either successfully or perseveringly = eniti (class.; most freq. in Cic.).— Constr. with ut, in aliqua re, in aliquid, with acc. and inf. as object, or absol.

(a). With ut: enitere, elabora, vel potius eblandire, effice, ut, etc., Cic. Att. 16, 16 C, 12; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14 fin.; id. de Or. 2, 72 fin.; Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 5, 18 (twice); and pass. impers.: aperte elaboratur, ut verba verbis respondeant, Cic. Or. 12, 38.—

(b). In aliqua re (so in Cic. most freq.): elaborant (senes) in iis, quae, etc., Cic. de Sen. 7, 24 Gernh.; 8, 26; 11, 38; id. Tusc. 1, 1, 1; id. de Or. 1, 3; 1, 5, 18; id. Or. 16 fin.; id. Off. 1, 1, 3; id. Agr. 2, 25 fin.; id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 39; id. Fam. 2, 6 fin. al.; Quint. 5, 10, 119; and pass. impers., Tac. Or. 29.— Also in eo (iis), ut, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 4; Quint. 4, 1, 45.—

(g). In aliquid (very seldom): ei non in unam partem aliquam, sed in omnia elaborandum est, Quint. 2, 8, 8; cf.: totis mentibus huc tendamus, in hoc elaboremus, id. 12, 1, 31, v. Spald. N. cr. —

(d). With acc. and inf. as object: (declamatores) breviores commentarios facere elaborarunt, Quint. 3, 8, 58.—(e) Absol. (very rare), Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 6, 24; so Dom. Afer. in Quint. 6, 3, 68: arte, Vulg. Sap. 14, 19.—

II. Act., to labor on, take pains with, to work out, elaborate (so for the most part only in the pass., and esp. freq. since the Aug. period): quicquid elaborari aut effici potuerit ad istorum benevolentiam conciliandam, Cic. Fam. 9, 16: in ingenio quoque, sicut in agro, quamquam diu serantur atque elaborentur, Tac. Or. 6 fin.: a Graecis elaborata dicendi vis atque copia, Cic. Brut. 7, 26: causae diligenter elaboratae et tamquam elucubratae, carefully elaborated, id. ib. 90 fin.; cf. in the part. perf., id. de Imp. Pomp. 1, 1; id. Cael. 19, 45; Quint. 4, 1, 54; 8, 3, 12; Hor. Epod. 14, 12 al.: elaboratum a parentibus imperium, acquired by the labors of, Just. 1, 2, 11.—In the act.: candelabrorum superficiem, Plin. 34, 3, 6, 11: non Siculae dapes Dulcem elaborabunt saporem, Hor. C. 3, 1, 19.—

B. In rhet.: ēlăbōrātus, a, um, P. a., sometimes with the accessory notion of overdoing, elaborate: elaborata concinnitas, Cic. Or. 25, 84: nihil arcessiti et elaborati, Quint. 12, 10, 40.