Elacatidæ (elakatide)

pl. [NL., Often... a speaker's thought is not weighty enough fin, a long second dorsal and anal fin, and acute to sustain elaborated style of any kind, and, least elaborated imagery. A. Phelps, English Style, p. 285. II. in trans. To be or become elaborate; be elaborated. [Rare.] ly lobed tail. The cranium is also characteristic. The type is the cobia or sergeant-fish, Elacate canada. See cut under cobia. elacatoid (e-lak'a-toid), a. and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to the Elacatidæ. This custom [of burying a dead man's movables with him] elaborates as social development goes through its II. n. An elacatid. earlier stages. H. Spencer, Prin, of Sociol., § 103. elaborate (e-lab'ō-rat), a. [= F. élaboré = Sp. Pg. elaborado = It. elaborato , elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance. The Expre ions are more florid and elaborate in these Descriptions than in most other Parts of the Poem. Add is on , Spectator, No. 321. His style would never have been elegant; but it might at least have been manly and perspicuous; and nothing but the most elaborate care could po ibly have made it so bad as it is. Macaulay , Mitford's Hist. Greece. What an elaborate theory have we here, Ingeniously nursed up, pretentiously