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elicit

verb

  1. call forth or draw out
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɪsɪt/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin elicitus from eliciō (“draw forth”).

  1. Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

    An elicit act of equity.

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin elicitus from eliciō (“draw forth”).

  1. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

    Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their chance for it,...

    Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.

  2. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

    Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.

    Did you elicit a response?

  3. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.