elicitate
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
elicitate (third-person singular simple present elicitates, present participle elicitating, simple past and past participle elicitated)
- To elicit.
- 1832, Samuel Jackson, The Principles of Medicine, page 237:
- The ideas elicitated in this manner, are, in every respect, similar to those proceeding from the senses.
- 1878, Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, page 195:
- "You say that Miss Eleanore refused to see him," I interrupted in the hope that the simple suggestion would be enough to elicitate further details of his interview with Eleanore.
- 1887, George Webb Appleton, A Terrible Legacy: A Tale of the South Downs, page 80:
- Well, if he is mine, why, when I wish to elicitate the truth, do you interrupt me with your ghosts?
- 2008, Horst Siebert, Economics of the Environment: Theory and Policy, page 71:
- Thus, markets can only elicitate environmental preferences if new property rights are introduced.
- 2010, Luiz Carlos L. Silva Jr, Marcos R.S. Borges, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho, “A Mobile Computer System to Support Collaborative Ethnography: An Approach to the Elicitation of Knowledge of Work Teams in Complex Environments”, in Gwendolyn Kolfschoten, Thomas Herrmann, Stephan Lukosch, editors, Collaboration and Technology, page 35:
- To elicitate knowledge for complex systems design, we argue that is necessary to carry out cognitive task analysis in actual work situations, understanding how and why operators make their actions, and the intrinsic human-system relations (human-organization, human-technology, and human-human actions).
- 2015, Alex Manfield, Real Scrum and More:
- Therefore Agile will elicitate just enough initial requirements to identify the project scope and develop a high-level schedule and estimate; that's all you really need early in a project, so that's all you should do.
Usage notes[edit]
This term is usually considered obsolete, although it appears relatively frequently in modern works by non-native speakers.