Elicit
[ɪ'lɪsɪt]
Definition
(a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
(v. t.) To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Draw out, bring out, succeed in obtaining.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Draw, evoke, educe, eliminate, enucleate, express, extract, worm, evolve
ANT:Insert, implant, introduce, inoculate, insinuate, infuse, instil, incorporate,suggest, extort
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Definition
v.t. to entice: to bring to light: to deduce.—n. Elicitā′tion.
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Examples
- Looking at his face, I longed to know his exact opinions, and at last I put a question tending to elicit them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: Mr. Edison and many like him see in reverse the course of human progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This letter failed to elicit an answer from the Adjutant-General of the Army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Her set purpose of contradicting Miss Abbey point blank, was so far from offending that dread authority, as to elicit a gracious smile. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had calculated with certainty on this step answering my end: I felt sure it would elicit an early answer. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have proved you in that time by sundry tests: and what have I seen and elicited? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It might be myself, or it might be my homely mourning habit, that elicited this mark of contempt; more likely, both. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But after this he has no more to say; the answers which he makes are only elicited from him by the dialectic of Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
- The girl's beauty elicited many brutal comments and vulgar jests. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For a moment there was no reply, and Tarzan added a few more ounces of pressure, which elicited a horrified shriek of pain from the great beast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- According to the legend, this great discovery elicited extravagant demonstrations of joy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This exclamation was elicited by his having turned the lantern off again, and on again, and being visible at the foot of the third mound. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before examining the room I cross-questioned the servants, but only succeeded in eliciting the facts which I have already stated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A mathematician and experimenter himself, he had a genius for eliciting discussion and research by means o f adroit questions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- His determination to cram down their throats, or put 'bodily into their souls' his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
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