elicit
verb
- call forth or draw out
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɪsɪt/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin elicitus from eliciō (“draw forth”).
- Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
“An elicit act of equity.”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin elicitus from eliciō (“draw forth”).
- 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.”
- 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?”
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.