elicit
/ɪˈlɪsɪt/ verb C1- To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- 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.
He/she/it elicits · Past elicited · Past participle elicited · -ing form eliciting
Verb forms
- Base form
- elicit
- He/she/it
- elicits
- Past
- elicited
- Past participle
- elicited
- -ing form
- eliciting
From the library
So, you see, our papers were quickly written out, and certainly do not come very expensive.” This joke elicited a fresh burst of applause.
But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all their philological ramifications.
It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.”
“What is it you want, dear grandpapa?” said Valentine, and she endeavored to recall to mind all the things which he would be likely to need; and as the ideas presented themselves to her mind, she repeated them aloud, then,—finding that all her efforts elicited nothing but a constant “No,”—she said, “Come, since this plan does not answer, I will have recourse to another.”
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