Word Finder - elicited

definition

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

definition

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

example

Did you elicit a response?

definition

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

synonyms

• construe
• deduce

The conformation of the vine stem has elicited a vast amount of explanatory comment.

McKinley's conduct and utterances in his last days revealed a loftiness of personal character that everywhere elicited admiration and praise.

Hence, one of the leading Proper elicited in the laboratory with what was observed in the sun.

Feedback is elicited through questionnaires from all applicants who attend.

The phone calls elicited either no response or a delayed response days later.

The threat has also eliciteda sharp response from some Europeans.

Nicholas' letter in which he mentioned Princess Mary had elicited, in her presence, joyous comments from the countess, who saw an intervention of Providence in this meeting of the princess and Nicholas.

She elicited emotions he never felt capable of, never thought existed.

No single act of the Mutiny elicited such a storm of fierce anger among the British, both those who were fighting in India and those who supported them at home; for none was a more terrible vengeance taken, though the Nana himself escaped from his pursuers.

In November 1894 a Turkish commission of inquiry was sent to Armenia, and was accompanied by the consular delegates of Great Britain, France and Russia, who elicited the fact that there had been no attempt 1 The Armenians and Kurds have lived together from the earliest times.

They had become accustomed to the constant chill in their bones, yet this newfound warmth elicited a welcome sensation that not only rid the cold, but also calmed the incessant craving for blood.

These special characters and their moves are elicited at various points in the game.

No woman had ever elicited a response like that from him.

In 1417, however, the Spanish Dominican St Vincent Ferrer pleaded the cause of the flagellants with great warmth at the council of Constance, and elicited a severe reply from John Gerson 29 ` ' '?

Recent investigations in the government of Moscow have revealed that 40% of the peasant households possessed no horses, and similar inquiries in 41 governments elicited the fact that 28% of the peasant households were without horses, although of the total number of horses in the country 82% belong to the peasantry.

Within two years the famous chapters had elicited what might almost be called a library of controversy.

This pamphlet elicited a beautiful and sympathetic letter from Lord Jeffrey.

The cardinal line of the poem, "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum," is elicited from him as his protest against the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father.

This astounding success elicited an outburst of popular enthusiasm which gave the war a national and religious character.

In 1835 he obtained a scholarship at University College; and in 1836 he gained the Newdigate prize for a poem on "The Knights of St John," which elicited special praise from Keble.

Richard Simon's Reponse (1686) elicited from Le Clerc a Defense des sentimens in the same year, which was followed by a new Reponse (1687).

This elicited from him a circular, in which he asserted his loyalty to the four general councils, and declared that the hostile bishops had been guilty of schism.

So far as it was accompanied by warnings, these were evidently general rather than elicited by any definite and imminent peril to the churches.

The group elicited admiration, which leads me to believe that the general level of marksmanship in Norway is no better than elsewhere.

Here we show that expression of active forms of MEK or of MAP kinase induces ventral mesoderm of the kind elicited by FGF.

In 588 John, patriarch of Constantinople, by reviving the old and disputed claim to the title of oecumenic patriarch, elicited a vigorous protest from Pelagius; but the decretal which professes to convey the exact words of the document is now known to be false.

This elicited Swift's most amusing Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.

It elicited its fair share of complements, which is always fantastic, and I found myself using it frequently over the course of several days.

In addition to classic video games like Quake and Doom, there have been a series of fighting games that have elicited a fair amount of controversy, the most notable of which is Mortal Kombat.

Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) is a nystagmus that can be elicited involuntarily when a rapidly moving striped object is passed in front of an individual's eyes.

Provocation testing involves challenging an individual with either a small amount of an inhalable or ingestible allergen to see if a response is elicited.

Viewers may have a hard time with feeling bad for Denise's life, although it isn't evident whether this is the feeling that is supposed to be elicited from watching the show.

Jennifer would remain in Ouray for at least another week, so she elicited a promise for a later dinner date.

It is a brief extension of the limb at the knee-joint, due to a simple contraction of the extensor muscle, elicited by a tap or other short mechanical stimulus applied to the muscle fibres through the tendon of the muscle.

The distinction, therefore, between the movement of the eyeballs, elicited from the occipital (visual) cortex, and that of the hand, elicited from the cortex in the region of the central sulcus (somaesthetic), is not a difference between motor and sensory, for both are sensori-motor in the nature of their reactions; the difference is only a difference between the kind of sense and sense-organ in the two cases, the muscular apparatus in each case being an appanage of the sensual.

Evictions were made on a scale which elicited from Sir Robert Peel an expression of the deepest abhorrence.

The finding adds to previous research by showing that it's not only brain activity elicited by a to-be-remembered stimulus that is important.