Meanings (ES + gloss)
educir • elicitar (DPD) • evocar • provocar • suscitar
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
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 woul…
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 ei…
elicitar (DPD) • obtener • saconear • sonsacar
To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
Did you elicit a response?
Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.
deducir • inferir
To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.