elicit

To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

• Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their c
• Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine

To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.transitive

• Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.
• Did you elicit a response?

To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.not-comparableobsolete

• An elicit act of equity.