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elicit

ih-LIS-it · verb

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Origin

Elicit comes from Latin elicitus, the past participle of eliciō, meaning "draw forth." English borrowed the word directly from this Latin form.

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The facts available don't describe a shift in meaning — the word has carried the sense of drawing something out since it entered English from Latin.

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