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Oratorio :: Oratorio (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted..

Base :: Base (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration..

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope..

Hall :: Hall (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times..

Dissertation :: Dissertation (n.) A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies..

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Introduction :: Introduction (n.) A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature..

Panegyric :: Panegyric (a.) An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage..

Refinement :: Refinement (n.) That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic..

Tregetour :: Tregetour (n.) A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.

Lorgnette :: Lorgnette (n.) elaborate double eyeglasses.

Damask :: Damask (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

Elaborator :: Elaborator (n.) One who, or that which, elaborates..

Secretion :: Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice..

Motet :: Motet (n.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.].

Inelaborate :: Inelaborate (a.) Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.

Elaborate :: Elaborate (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work..

Reception :: Reception (n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception..

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