Definitionn. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
Last update: August 22, 2015
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The gradual elaboration of the sacrificial ceremonial, as the all-sufficient expression of religious devotion, and a constantly growing tendency towards theosophic and mystic speculation on the significance of every detail of the ritual, could not fail to create a demand for explanatory treatises of this kind, which, to enhance their practical utility, would naturally deal with the special texts and rites assigned in the ceremonial to the several classes of officiating priests. [Please select]
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This, we shall see, continued the elaboration of the witch procedure. [Please select]
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They were an elaboration of those already used in earlier works. [Please select]
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Pyrrhonism accepts the irrationality and revels in its dialectic elaboration. [Please select]
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Reaching the river, he made his preparations with great care and elaboration. [Please select]
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The system represents a series of compromises, not the elaboration of a theory. [Please select]
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These, again, are the product of an indefinitely long elaboration, which Bentham takes for granted. [Please select]
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This scheme the German strategists had worked out with great care and elaboration. [Please select]
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Here Genesis found it pleasant to present the scene with some elaboration. [Please select]
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They were of people French in look, handsome, and dressed with great care and elaboration. [Please select]
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[Footnote 46: For a further elaboration of this theme, see Holt: _The Freudian Wish_. [Please select]
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