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Definition of elicited :
of Elicit
Synonyms:
caused (part of speech: verb)
enforced, motivated, brought about, evoked, engineered, inspired, effected, caused, induced, acted, generated, executed, gave rise to, brought, provoked, originated, given rise to, produced, forced, drove, driven, made, engendered
discovered (part of speech: verb)
educed, disinterred, solved, recognized, realized, determined, fathomed, detected, dug up, exposed, unmasked, identified, found, disclosed, unraveled, revealed, unearthed, discovered
Usage examples:
- Their conduct elicited the admiration of a gazing world. - "Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution", L. Carroll Judson.
- Before she touched her soup, Amy glanced down the line of faces opposite, and finding none that answered the slight description elicited from the waiter, she leaned a little forward to examine those on her own side of the table. - "Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories", Louisa M. Alcott.
- The facts that I elicited were these: At his uncle's bidding Claude came, Claude saw, and Claude was conquered. - "Fragments of an Autobiography", Felix Moscheles.