elicit
IPA: ɪɫˈɪsɪt
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
adjective
- (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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Examples of "elicit" in Sentences
- He can elicit a response carefully.
- Obligation of eliciting the act of contrition.
- I'm also ashamed of the lack of outrage it elicited.
- All that unwholesome food and music does not elicit nostalgia.
- He aims to jar the audience from complacency and elicit a reaction.
- If the goal is incongruent, then negative emotions will be elicited.
- Eventually, the neutral stimulus alone can elicit the state of fear.
- All that unwholesome food and shitty music does not elicit nostalgia.
- But country-of-origin labels elicit an even more perplexing question.
- Lincoln did not attempt to elicit sympathy for the victims of the mob.
- Electrical stimulation of the insula in the human elicit gustatory sensations.
- The first step, however, was to elicit from the Germans a concrete statement of aims.
- And this is pretty much the standard crest-and-trough reaction I elicit from the Chinese.
- I also loved that you used 'elicit' and 'illicit' within the same piece, and close together.
- i wonder how many “kill it” posts this will elicit from the local contingent of bitter, pizza-faced, boys.
- Of course, this answer is the one I suspect that Dawkins wishes to elicit from the reader of "Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee".
- Meanwhile Dr Malan made an attempt to elicit from the Germans a more definite indication of their intentions towards South Africa.
- A similar problem unfolds in stanza five as the speaker seeks to elicit from the urn a transcendental message both aesthetic and ontological that will bring the poem to thematic and formal closure and that will confirm the urn's (and the poem's) status as a revelatory Romantic symbol.
- Say Chinnery to any art buff under 40 and the name will elicit no response, and now that Tate Britain has all but abandoned its responsibility to keep successive generations aware of historic British painting, it is probable that Chinnery will be for ever lost to common knowledge, obliterated, with many other once known artists, by the enforced fashion there for contemporary art.