Synonyms:
elicited, evoked
Meaning: called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response"
Usage examples
For men never elicited duty, but only a necessity of acting from a certain interest.
She elicited a suggestion of loto, and saying that no one else knew where to find the game, she left the room.
"I---I wish we did have a little daylight," stammered Chunky, which elicited a short laugh from his companions.
Defarge, a weak minority, interposed a few words for the memory of the compassionate wife of the Marquis; but only elicited from his own wife a repetition of her last reply.
Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence. Further examination elicited that Grushenka knew, too, where that money had come from, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had got it from Katerina Ivanovna.
Papa Troyon was gone; Madame no longer occupied the desk of the caisse; enquiries, so discreetly worded as to be uncompromising, elicited from the maitre-d'hotel the information that the house had been under new management these eighteen months; the old proprietor was dead, and his widow had sold out lock, stock and barrel, and retired to the country--it was not known exactly where.