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Elicit

Definitions: Elicit

Elicit

Verb

1. Call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy".

2. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant".

3. Derive by reason; "elicit a solution".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "elicit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Elicit

Synonyms: arouse (v), draw out (v), educe (v), enkindle (v), evoke (v), extract (v), fire (v), kindle (v), provoke (v), raise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Elicit

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cause

Procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke.

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Extraction

Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate.

Manifestation

Indicate; (direct attention to); disclose; elicit; a.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Elicit

English words defined with "elicit": advance, approach, attractcatechism, colossaldiscovery, drawElicitate, Eliciting, excitefeeler, fetchleadingmaieutic methodovertureprodigious, pullrhetoricalSocratic method, stupendous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "elicit": asbestos longjohns, ASCIIbonicsCLAIMS ADJUDICATORdirector, broadcast, DIRECTOR, RADIO, DIRECTOR, STAGEfloor plan adjusterHaptensINVESTIGATOR, DEALER ACCOUNTSjail keeperPrecipitinsReceptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Receptors, PhencyclidineSENIOR ENLISTED ADVISOR, Sensory Thresholds, Sex Attractants, SKIP TRACER'SnoozeSUPERVISOR, SPECIAL EDUCATIONTombusviridaeUTILIZATION COORDINATORYu-Shiang Whole Fish. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Elicit" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (coax, draw, elicit, entice, forth, pull out).

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Commercial Usage: Elicit

DomainTitle

Books

  • Comics and Conversation: Using Humor to Elicit Conversation and Develop Vocabulary (reference)

  • Does U.S. Foreign Assistance Elicit Support for U.S. Policy? Not at the United Nations [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Drugs and Peptic Ulcer: Drugs and Otherchemicals Which Elicit Ulc Ers or Erosions in Humans or Animals (reference)

  • More Comics and Conversation: Using Humor to Elicit Conversation and Develop Vocabulary, Reproducible Blackline Masters (reference)

  • New Comics and Conversation: Using Humor to Elicit Conversation and Develop Vocabulary (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Elicit

AuthorQuotation

Horace

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Elicit

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Kutapressin can elicit allergic reactions. (references)

Common bacteria typically elicit antibodies, while viruses and fungi stimulate T cells. (references)

Because patients' shower baths often elicit agitation, the study focused on this routine event. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Authorities viewed the program as improper because of the organizers' efforts to advertise the event and to elicit a response from the crowd during remarks. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Upcoming privatizations in the power and banking sectors will likely elicit strong interest from U.S. firms. (references)

Chad

Judicial authorities are widely assumed to be subject to influence and legal clerks often obstruct procedures in order to elicit bribes. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Police routinely use force to elicit confessions; however, there were fewer reports of torture by police during the year. (references)

Philippines

According to a CHR report, those arrested (including a 13-year-old child) were subjected to beatings intended to elicit confessions. (references)

Botswana

There were reports that police sometimes beat persons and used intimidation techniques in order to obtain evidence or elicit confessions. (references)

Political Economy

Australia

Although the government can elicit support from the ALP for some legislation, the Democrats are more likely to compromise as they did in joining the Government on introducing the goods and services tax ("GST) one of the most significant tax reform measures in recent Australian history. (references)

Travel

Kenya

Ongoing electricity outages and water rationing may elicit further demonstrations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Elicit

"Elicit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.71% of the time. "Elicit" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)87.71%20721,147
Lexical Verb (base form)11.02%2668,323
Noun (singular)1.27%3202,518
                    Total100.00%236N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Elicit

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

butt elicit

7

elicit

4

bbw elicit

2

elicit toplist

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Elicit

Language Translations for "elicit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, make up one's mind, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), i nxjerr. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إستنبط (contrive, devise, educe, evolve, formulate, frame, work out), ‏إستخرج (educe, evolve, excavate, extract, lever, mine, quarry, read out, shake), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏ظهر للعيان (emerge, unfold). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), изтръгвам (extort, get, milk, pull out, rip out, root from, snatch, tear out, uproot, wrench, wrest, yank), извличам (derive, distil, drag out, draw, educe, excerpt, exhaust, extract, milk, recover). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

得出 (Elicited, Eliciting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zjistit (ascertain, average, chase up, detect, determine, establish, find, find out, read, tell), získat (acquire, cajole, capture, carry off, come by, conciliate, drum up, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, pick up, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), vyloudit, vylákat (bring out). (various references)

   

French

  

extraire, tirer, provoquer, obtenir, mettre jour, foire sortir, arracher. (various references)

   

German

  

entlocken (coax out of, extract, to elicit, worm out of). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποσπώ (abstract, break off, detach, distract, extort, extract, pluck, pry, pull, second, tease out, unfix, wean 1, wean 2, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תרים (get him to contribute), ל"פיק (bring out, derive, extract, issue, output, send forth), ל"ובב (cause to speak, draw someone out, induce to speak). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kivesz (get out, make out, pull out, take out, to draw out, to except, to expel, to rent, to scour away, to take out, to unclench, to unclinch), kisüt (ran, run, think up, to fuzz out, to render, to run). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengeluarkan (educe, excrete, expel, secrete). (various references)

   

Italian

  

suscitare (arouse, cause, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, provoke, rouse), ricavare (borrow, come to, deduce, earn, extract, gain, get, make a profit, obtain), provocare (arouse, bring on, cause, challenge, defy, dispose, incite, induce, invite, operate, produce, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, spark, stir, wake, work), dedurre (abstract, conclude, deduce, deduct, gather, induce, infer), cavar fuori. (various references)

   

Manx

  

tayrn magh (drag out, draw out, evoke, extract, extraction, pluck out, pull out, rip out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal), feddyn magh (ascertain, ascertainment, determine, dig out, discover, discovery, invent, invention, seek out). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

lokke fram. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elicitay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

extrair (bows, couch, drag out, draw, drew, educe, excerption, extract, lug, poker, pull, pump, take out, winkle out), traquinas (elysium, frolic, frolicsome, monkey, petulant), deduzir (abate, abstract, articulate, collect, deduce, derive, educe, gather, imply, knock out, poke about, recoup, retrench). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

smulge (carry away, draw out, extirpate, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, Rive, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), provoca (abet, agitate, bring, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, challenge, create, dare, defy, encourage, excite, fling down the gauntlet, give, give rise to, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invite, provoke, raise, rouse, spur on, start, stimulate, stir, stir up, throw down the gauntlet, urge, work up), obţine (achieve, acquire, attain, coax, come by, find it easy to, get, obtain, poll, procure, realize, secure, take, whip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

извлекать (abstract, derive, extract, extracted, extracting, retrieve, uncompress, withdraw). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izmamiti (entice, scrounge, tap, wangle, wheedle, winkle out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sonsacar (draw out, pump, steal, tease out, wheedle), provocar (bring, draw, drive, fuel, goad, goad on, incite, induce, needle, nettle, promote, provoke, set up, throw up, touch off, trigger, whip), obtener (achieve, acquire, attain, bring off, come by, derive, earn, extract, get, get in, have, jump on, land, obtain, poll, procure, receive, secure, take out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

framlocka (draw forth), framkalla (arouse, bring about, call forth, call up, cause, develop, engender, evoke, excite, fetch, induce, invite, prompt, provoke, recall, set up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tepkiye neden olmak, tepki göstermek, meydana çıkarmak (bring to light, catch out, dig up, nail, reveal, show), aydınlatmak (brighten, charge, civilize, clear, clear up, clue, dissolve, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, flash, flash on, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, let daylight into smth., light, light up, lighten, post, rake up, set light to, shine upon, solve, unravel), öğrenmek (ascertain, come to know, get to know, get wise to, hear, imbibe, inform oneself of smth., learn, make acquainted with, make oneself acquainted with, master, school oneself to, study, wise up to, wit), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

робити висновок (conclude, deduce, draw a conclusion, educe, gather, infer), виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, evince, evolve, exert, find, show, uncover, vent), добитися (compel, succeed, win), допитатися. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Elicit

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

eliciendum, elicit, elicuit, eruam, eruamini, eruaris, eruas, eruat, eruatis, erue, eruebamque, eruens, eruent, eruentur, eruere, erueret, eruerit, eruero, eruerunt, erues, eruet, erui, eruimus, eruisset, eruissetis, eruisti, eruit, eruite, eruti, erutus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Elicit

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 30, Verse 33
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAmelge gala kai estai bouturon ean de ekpiezhV mukthraV exeleusetai aima ean de exelkhV logouV exeleusontai kriseiV kai macai
Latin405VulgateQui autem fortiter premit ubera ad eliciendum lac exprimit butyrum et qui vehementer emungitur elicit sanguinem et qui provocat iras producit discordias
Middle English1395WyclifWho forsothe strongli thresteth tetes, to drawen out mylc, threstith out buttere; and who hugeli smyteth, drawith out blod; and who terreth wrathis, bringeth forth discordis.
Jacobean English1611King JamesSurely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Victorian English1833WebsterSurely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Basic English1964OgdenThe shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Elicit

LanguageProverbs Chapter 30, Verse 33
BulgarianЗащото както , като се бие мляко, изважда се масло, И като се блъска нос, изважда се кръв, Така и, като се подбужда гняв, изкарва се крамола.
CebuanoKay ang pagbatil sa gatas nagadala ug mantekilya, Ug ang paglubag sa ilong nagapagula sa dugo; Busa ang pagpugos sa kaligutgut nagadala ug pakig-away.
Chinese搖 牛 奶 必 成 奶 油 . 扭 鼻 子 必 出 血 . 照 樣 、 激 動 ' 氣 必 起 爭 端 。
CroatianKad se mlijeko metÄe, izlazi maslac; kad se nos pritisne, poteèe krv; kad se srdžba potisne, dobiva se spor.
Danish\30:32\Thi Tryk på Mælk giver Ost, Tryk på Næsen Blod og Tryk på Vrede Trætte.
DutchWant de drukking der melk brengt boter voort, en de drukking van den neus brengt bloed voort, en de drukking des toorns brengt twist voort.
FinnishSillä maitoa pusertamalla saa voin, nenää pusertamalla saa veren, ja vihoja pusertamalla saa riidan.
FrenchCar la pression du lait produit de la crème, La pression du nez produit du sang, Et la pression de la colère produit des querelles.
GermanWenn man Milch stößt, so macht man Butter daraus; und wer die Nase hart schneuzt, zwingt Blut heraus; und wer den Zorn reizt, zwingt Hader heraus.
Haitian CreoleSi ou bat lèt, l'ap fè bè. Si ou frape yon moun sou men l', l'ap senyen. Si ou nan pouse dife, ou nan gwo kont.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSebab, kalau engkau mengocok susu, kau menghasilkan mentega. Kalau engkau memukul hidung orang, keluarlah darah. Kalau engkau menimbulkan kemarahan, kau terlibat dalam pertengkaran.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamakarena air susu ditumbuk menjadi mentega dan hidung ditumbuk keluar darah dan amarah digalakkan menjadikan perkelahian.
Italianpoiché, sbattendo il latte ne esce la panna, premendo il naso ne esce il sangue, spremendo la collera ne esce la lite.
Korean대 을 으 면 뻐 터 가 되 " 를 비 틀 면 " 가 나 " 것 같 이 노 를 격 동 하 면 다 툼 이 남 이 니 라
MaoriHe pono hoki ki te hurihia te waiu ka puta mai he pata, a ki te kowiria te ihu ka puta mai he toto: waihoki ki te akina te riri ka puta he whawhai.
Modern Greek"ιοτι οστις κτυπα το γαλα, εκβαλλει βουτυρον· και οστις εκθλιβει την ρινα, εκβαλλει αιμα· και οστις ερεθιζει οργην, εξαγει μαχας.
NorwegianFor trykk på melk gir smør, og trykk på nese gir blod, og trykk på vrede* gir trette. # <* enn mere å egge den vrede.>
PortugueseComo o espremer do leite produz queijo verde, e o espremer do nariz produz sangue, assim o espremer da ira produz contenda.   
Rumaniancqci baterea laptelui dq smkntknq, scqrpinarea nasului dq sknge, wi stoarcerea mkniei dq certuri.
Russian ПФПНХ ЮФП, ЛБЛ У'ЙЧБОЙЕ НПМПЛБ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ НБУМП, ФПМЮПЛ Ч ОПУ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ ЛТПЧШ, ФБЛ Й ЧПЪ'ХЦ"ЕОЙЕ ЗОЕЧБ ТПЙЪЧП"ЙФ УУПТХ.
SpanishCiertamente el que bate la leche sacará mantequilla; el que con fuerza se suena la nariz sacará sangre, y el que provoca la ira causará contienda.
SwedishTy såsom ost pressas ut ur mjölk, och såsom blod pressas ut ur näsan, så utpressas kiv ur vrede. ----
Thaiเพราะเมื่อกวนน้ำนมก็ไ"้เนยเหลว เมื่อบีบจมูกก็ไ"้โลหิต และเมื่อกวนโทโสก็ไ"้การวิวาท
UkrainianБо збивання молока да" масло, і да" кров вдар по носі, тиск же на гнів да" сварку.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Elicit

Derivations

Words beginning with "elicit": elicitation, elicitations, elicited, eliciting, elicitor, elicitors, elicits. (additional references)

Words containing "elicit": felicitate, felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation, felicitations, felicitator, felicitators, felicities, felicitous, felicitously, felicitousness, felicitousnesses, felicity, helicities, helicity, infelicities, infelicitous, infelicitously, infelicity. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Elicit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alicit, ebiscite, edicit, eeikish, eleatic, elecit, elic, elicia, elicite, elicitr, elict, Eligio, eliki, ellic, ellicit, ellicite, elohim, ilecit, ilicet, ilicis, ilicit, jelincic, Leicht, Leixit, Lerici, slicit, Telebit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elicit"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "elicit" (pronounced uli"sut)
6u l i" s u tsolicit.
5-l i" s u tcomplicit, explicit, illicit, implicit.
3-s u tBasset, corset, cosset, deficit, dulcet, facet, faucet, knesset, Lancet, russet, tacit.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Elicit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-t"

-1 letter: licit, telic.

-2 letters: ceil, celt, cite, clit, etic, lice, lite, tile.

-3 letters: cel, ice, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, tic, tie, til.

-4 letters: el, et, it, li, ti.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: ciliate, elicits, fictile, pelitic.

 

+2 letters: ciliated, ciliates, ecliptic, elicited, elicitor, elliptic, enclitic, eolithic, explicit, felicity, felsitic, helicity, idiolect, lecithin, leucitic, limnetic, lithemic, perlitic, pyelitic, scilicet, silicate, verticil, zeolitic.

 

+3 letters: anticline, chilliest, citizenly, clarities, cliffiest, clingiest, cliquiest, colitises, deciliter, declivity, deistical, dialectic, doleritic, ecliptics, eliciting, elicitors, enclitics, epileptic, eristical, etiologic, explicits, fictively, genitalic, homiletic, identical, idiolects, implicate, inelastic, inflicted, inflicter, insectile, italicise, italicize, laciniate, lateritic, laticifer, lecithins, leviratic, melanitic, militance, neolithic, niccolite, pearlitic, pleuritic, realistic, reliction, sciential, sectility, sickliest, silicates, socialite, solicited, sticklike, tailpiece, tricklier, triticale, verticils, videlicet, witchlike.

 

+4 letters: acetanilid, actinolite, afflictive, alacrities, anticlines, antipolice, bimetallic, bioethical, calamities, capitalise, capitalize, celerities, cellulitis, centiliter, centillion, childliest, citrulline, civilities, clavierist, cliometric, clitorides, clitorises, colpitises, conciliate, crinkliest, deciliters, dialectics, dielectric, dilemmatic, diphyletic, docilities, egoistical, elasticity, elliptical, endolithic, enticingly, epiblastic, epicuticle, epiglottic, epileptics, epitomical, erectility, eremitical, ethicality, eulogistic, excitingly, explicitly, facilitate, facilities, felicitate, felicities, felicitous, helicities, helminthic, homiletics, idealistic, idiolectal, illiteracy, imbecility, implicated, implicates, inactively, incidental, indelicate, indictable, indirectly, inexplicit, infelicity, inflecting, inflection, inflective, inflicters, inflictive, isoplethic, italicised, italicises, italicized, italicizes, jesuitical, laticifers, legalistic, legitimacy, lexicality, licentiate, licentious, lipsticked, literacies, localities, lucidities, lysimetric, megalithic, melanistic, melismatic, microliter, militances, multicurie, multigenic, multipiece, niccolites, novelistic, participle, philatelic, plasticine, plasticize, plebiscite, polemicist, politicise, politicize, politicked, politicker, politicoes, postexilic, prickliest, recitalist, relictions, salacities, septicidal, socialites, solecistic, solicitude, specialist, speciality, stenciling, tailpieces, theistical, tholeiitic, tremolitic, trickliest, triplicate, triticales, ultimacies, umbilicate, unciliated, uricotelic, velocities, ventriculi, victimless, vocalities, xenolithic.

 

+5 letters: acclimatise, acclimatize, acclivities, acetanilide, acetanilids, actinolites, actualities, alchemistic, aliteracies, applicative, atheistical, athleticism, bellicosity, bibliotheca, bidialectal, bimetallics, bioelectric, biometrical, bisectional, calisthenic, callosities, capitalised, capitalises, capitalized, capitalizes, carnalities, cartelising, cartelizing, catholicize, causalities, celebrities, centiliters, centillions, certifiable, certifiably, chiralities, circinately, circulative, citrullines, clarinetist, clavierists, clericalist, climacteric, cliometrics, cloistering, clonicities, coevalities, cognitively, colinearity, colligative, conciliated, conciliates, conflictive, credibility, credulities, crocidolite, cyclicities, declination, declivities, declivitous, deficiently, deistically, dereliction, dialectical, diametrical, dielectrics, dilatancies, directional, directorial, diverticula, domiciliate, ductilities, duplicative, duplicities, eclecticism, educability, efficiently, egotistical, eidetically, elasticized, electrician, electricity, electrified, electrifies, elicitation, ellipticals, ellipticity, elucidating, elucidation, elucidative, enigmatical, epicuticles, epithalamic, epithetical, equinoctial, eristically, etiological, exclusivist, exclusivity, explicating, explication, explicative, facelifting, facilitated, facilitates, factitively, felicitated, felicitates, felicitator, feudalistic, fiddlestick, flichtering, geanticline, geopolitics, gracilities, helicopting, heliometric, heliotropic, homiletical, identically, illicitness, implicative, inceptively, incidentals, incipiently, incredulity, inductively, inflections, inoculative, interfacial, interlacing, interracial, intervallic, intricately, invectively, isoelectric, justiciable, kinematical, kinetically, lecithinase, licentiates, lickspittle, linecasting, loquacities, lubricative, lubricities, maledicting, malediction, meiotically, melioristic, mentalistic, methicillin, microliters, militancies, mimetically, multiclient, multiethnic, nematicidal, neologistic, ostrichlike, participles, peculiarity, penicillate, peristaltic, perithecial, placidities, planimetric, plasticines, plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizes, plebiscites, pleiotropic, polemicists, politicised, politicises, politicized, politicizes, politickers, precritical, princeliest, publicities, quitclaimed, rascalities, recitalists, rectifiable, rectilinear, replicating, replication, replicative, rickettsial, scintillate, sectilities, selectivity, singlestick, socialities, solicitudes, specialists, specialties, spherulitic, stencilling, tactilities, telekinetic, triplicated, triplicates, tropicalize, umbilicated, unclarities, unrealistic, unsolicited, uricotelism, valediction, verbalistic, vermiculite, verticality, viniculture, viticulture.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Elicit


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 69 63 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-..    ..    -.-.    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#105 &#99 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0069 0063 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

397875697586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Bible Trace
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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