Synonyms:
educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw_out
Meaning: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
Usage examples
Each party appealed to Mr. Campbell, anxious, it seemed, to elicit his approbation.
At present we want engineers, industrial men, good business-like managers, and railroad men." It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: "Mr.
I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me, or elicit from the gloom some haloed face, bending over me with strange pity.
But if the clergyman did in the Duke's case what he would NOT do in Smith's; if he has no more acquaintance with the Coeurdelion family than I have with the Royal and Serene House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha,--THEN, I confess, my dear Snobling, your question might elicit a disagreeable reply, and one which I respectfully decline to give.