Definition of "elicit" []

• To bring or draw out (something latent); educe. (verb-transitive)
• To arrive at (a truth, for example) by logic. (verb-transitive)
• To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a reaction, for example). See Synonyms at evoke. (verb-transitive)

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• "Of course, this answer is the one I suspect that Dawkins wishes to elicit from the reader of "Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee"."
• "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."
• "The first step, however, was to elicit from the Germans a concrete statement of aims."