Verb: elicit i'li-sit
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"elicit pity";
- arouse, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, raise, provoke
- Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
"We elicited some interesting linguistic data from the native informant";
- educe [formal], evoke, extract, draw out
- (logic) derive by reason
"elicit a solution"
Sounds like: elation, illationt, illici
Derived forms: elicited, eliciting, elicits
Type of: construe, create, deduce, deduct [rare], derive, infer, interpret, make, see