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elicit
/ɪˈlɪsɪt/
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What does elicit mean?
verb
- 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.
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
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adjective
- (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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IPA pronunciation
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The testimony of facts is in this case hard to elicit, and only skilful reasoners can properly estimate its worth.
Though objects of love always elicit pity, when helpless or injured, objects of pity are not necessarily objects of love.
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There are men “in society” now, as rich as Croesus, who have no consideration extended towards them, and elicit no respect.
Numbers of them were made, and exhibited to admiring audiences, by license, and never failed to elicit both amusement and applause.
Examining events from a psychological point of view, we shall continue to elicit the consequences from the facts on which they are consequent.