elicit

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

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