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Definition of Eliciting
1. elicit [v] - See also: elicit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eliciting
Literary usage of Eliciting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1915)
"Criticism of eliciting everything by questions— The contrasting extremes in the
... The extreme of eliciting everything by conversation is criticized by ..."
2. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... indicating that he was accompanying with his voice the notes he was eliciting
from his lyre. The woodcut shows the head of this remarkable figure. ..."
3. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"Then the fowl flew away without eliciting so much as a murmur from his lips.
But in the morning he perceived that the enemy's troops had passed that way ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... eliciting from the poet, soldier, and politician, Henry, Earl of Surrey, the
high praise of the following sonnet: " From ..."
5. A Treatise on General Practice: Containing Rules and Suggestions for the by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1894)
"So, too, a re-examination on such points magnifies their importance, and gives
them far greater weight than they would otherwise possess. § 668. Eliciting ..."
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