Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of eliciting, or of drawing out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of eliciting.
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- noun The act of
eliciting ; or, anelicited thing.
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- noun stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
Etymologies
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Examples
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Essentially, Camping's message turned into overt manipulation through the elicitation of a fear response in the potential believer.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Rapt By The Rapture: Thoughts On Reponses To Religious Figures Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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Essentially, Camping's message turned into overt manipulation through the elicitation of a fear response in the potential believer.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Rapt By The Rapture: Thoughts On Reponses To Religious Figures Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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So for 30 minutes, I pulled everything together - by nomination, open elicitation, explanation and restatement.
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Where data is scarce, regulators supplement calculations with knowledgable opinion - what the industry calls "expert elicitation," in which experts are asked to speculate.
The Center for Public Integrity: Nuclear miscalculation: Why regulators miss power plant threats from quakes and storms The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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What is interesting is that NASA's organizational "peers", for purposes of budget elicitation, are these cabinet-level organizations plus a handful of others -- such as the EPA and SBA.
NASA Administrator: A New Name Is Circulating - NASA Watch 2009
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Apple is very similar to gold in its elicitation of passion and emotional responses from both those that own it and those that invest in it.
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They had used a method called metaphor elicitation to see if their office was connecting properly with the unspoken and in many cases unrecognized inner thoughts and feelings of their applicants.
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We might even suppose them functionally identical, treating the process of indirection as a conscious or unconscious strategy for avoiding face-threatening behaviour, seeing every revelation as also an elicitation, deliberate or not, carried out in the expectation of a response, even if it is only sympathetic agreement.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008
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As I have said several time in the recent past, Apple is very similar to gold in its elicitation of passion and emotional responses from both those that own it and those that invest in it.
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As I have said several time in the recent past, Apple is very similar to gold in its elicitation of passion and emotional responses from both those that own it and those that invest in it.
artoparts commented on the word elicitation
Confucius suggested studying and teaching methods such as elicitation and advocated a discussion method among his disciples and himself. See also John Dewey.
October 15, 2009