elicit

verb

1. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

   “Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their chance for it,...”

   “Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.”

2. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

   “Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.”

   “Did you elicit a response?”

   “He visited three department stores in New York and asked the attendant a question that would elicit the answer fourth floor; for example, he might have asked Excuse me, where are women's shoes?”

3. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

   “An elicit act of equity.”