It is important to elicit a suitable response from the children for each assembly.

I asked, more to take his mind off mayhem than to elicit information.

It is difficult to elicit sympathy for a silly old man caught up in dark dealings.

Mechain in 1790, but of the people and to elicit their binding response, his object in was not recognized as periodic until found by Tuttle in 1858, summoning a contio was merely to bring the people together either for their instruction or for a declaration of his will as expressed in an edict ("contionem habere est verba facere ad populum sine ulla rogatione," Gell.

the action of even an ordinary cane is sufficient to elicit a recoil.