Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Elaborative
E·lab′o·ra·tive (ē·lăb′ō·rȧ·tĭv), a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.