1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. vi. 159. Either simples, or cheap, or unelaborate Galenical mixtures. Ibid. (1688), Final Causes Nat. Things, ii. 44. Most of them … are of such easy and unelaborate contextures.
1747. Warburton, in Shakespeare’s Wks., VII. 349. The work of brief nature, i.e. of hasty, unelaborate nature.
1819. Wordsw., To Rev. Dr. Wordsw., 34. Whether the rich man’s sumptuous gate Call forth the unelaborate sounds [etc.].
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. ii. 106. The comparatively Hebraized and unelaborate idiom.
