4 December 2016
elicit
[ih-lis-it]
verb (used with object)
1. to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
to elicit the truth; to elicit a response with a question.
Origin of elicit
Latin
1635-1645; Latin ēlicitus drawn out (past participle of ēlicere), equivalent to ē- e-1+ lici- draw, lure + -tus past participle suffix
Related forms
elicitation, noun
elicitor, noun
nonelicited, adjective
unelicited, adjective
Can be confused
elicit, illicit.
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Examples from the Web for elicit
Contemporary Examples
The accusation that Makaburi encouraged young men to kill Americans touched a nerve—and did not elicit a denial.
Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers
Margot Kiser
April 5, 2014
The Deport Justin Bieber Petition, has already garnered the necessary number of signatures to elicit a White House response.
Justin Bieber Has Been Drag Racing Down the Road to Recovery
Amy Zimmerman
February 4, 2014
Putman’s funeral will elicit new tributes Wednesday at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church in Paris.
Andrée Putman, ‘the Grande Dame of Design,’ Revolutionized Interiors
Tracy McNicoll
January 19, 2013
Not bad, if Sediuk’s intentions really were to elicit an authentic response from the original Material Girl.
An Analysis of Vitalii Sediuk’s Pranks (He’s the Guy Who Touched Brad Pitt)
Amy Zimmerman
May 28, 2014
Historical Examples
Possibly, but not one more likely to elicit Wallenstein’s candour.
The Mercenary
W. J. Eccott
With what authority do we elicit respect and obedience from our little people!
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906
Various
But whenever the teacher fails to elicit both respect and love, his power for good is lost.
Buchanan’s Journal of Man, June 1887
Various
No amount of cross-examination could elicit any further information.
The Light of Scarthey
Egerton Castle
No question was admissible which tended to elicit information or a positive declaration from the respondent.
Aristotle
George Grote
Anagram
lit ice
Today’s quote
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
– Karl Popper
On this day
4 December 1952 – A deadly smog in London caused by soot and sulphur dioxide from factories, cars and home coal-fires. It continues for four days and kills at least 4,000 people.
4 December 1954 – the first franchised Burger King store is opened in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
4 December 1961 – the birth control contraceptive pill (‘the pill’) available publicly through the National Health Service.
4 December 1969 – 14 police shoot dead two members of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton and Mary Clark, who were asleep in their apartment. The Black Panther Party was committed to racial equality and rights for African Americans.
4 December 1971 – Montreux Casino in Switzerland burns to the ground, becoming the inspiration for rock’s most identifiable riff, Smoke on the Water. Savvy listeners will hear the song refer to Montreux, the Gambling House, a flare gun and of course, the brilliant, Frank Zappa & the Mothers. Deep Purple was in Montreux, on Lake Geneva, recording their legendary album, Machine Head, in the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Studio (or ‘truck thing’ as they call it in the song) and penned arguably the greatest riff of all time after the gambling house went up in flames during a Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention concert. The fire began when someone fired a flare gun into the rattan ceiling during the Zappa song, ‘King Kong’. This link is footage of the actual concert that Frank Zappa & the Mothers were playing in the Montreux Casino on the Lake Geneva shoreline when ‘some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground’ causing smoke on the water & fire in the sky … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lpFeopjJhI