To draw, get, or pike out: to prouoke or allure: to get. Domo aliquem elicere. Horat. To allure one forth of dores. Elicere aluum. Plin. To prouoke to the stoole. Inferorum animas elicere. Cicer. To call or fetch vppe deade spirites. Aquas pluuias elicere. Ouid. To obtaine raine of God. Eliciunt cælo te luppiter. Ouid. They inake thee O Iupiter descend and come downe out of beauen. Ex terræ cauernis ferrum elicere. Cicer. To mine vnder the earth for yron: to fetth out of the bowels of the earth. Fauorem elicete. Tacit. To allure fauour. Suscitare & elicere fontem. Plin. iunior. To cause a well to spring. Elicere ignem conflictu & ictu lapidum. Cic. To strike fire by beating flints togither. Iras elicere. Sil. To prouoke to anger: to make angrle. Elicere lachrymas. Plautus. To make to werpe: to prouoke teares. Literas ab aliquo elicere. Cicero. To cause one to write lecters to vs. Manes sepulchris elicit. Tibul. To raise dead spirites. Sanguinem elicere. Cic. To draw out bloud. Elicere sudorem. Plin. To prouoke sweate. Conquirere & elicere blanditijs. Cic. To make search, and by faire meanes to get the knowledge of. Elicere multa ab aliquo & cognoscere, &c. To get % knoweledge of many things by one. Elicere & tanquam exprimere aliquid. Cicer. To bring, and, as it were, to presse foorth some what. Elicere arcana alicuius. Liuius. To gette one to vtter his secreats Elicere causam immutatæ alicuius voluntatis. Ci. To gette one to tel the cause why his goodwil is chãged toward vs. Oportunitatem elicere. Cic. Elicere ex mentibus diuinis prodigia. Liui. Elicere sententiam alicuius. Cic. To gette one to tell his opinion. Neruorum elicere sonos. Cic. To make strings sowne. Suspicionem elicere ex re aliqua. Cice. To gather suspition by a thing. VerbÛ ex eonunquam elicere potui de vi ac ratione dicendi. Cic. I could neuer get him to speake one worde, &c. Elicere verum. Plaut. To get the knowledge of the trueth. Elicere vlulatum. Plin. Vocem elicere. Cic. To make one to speake. Vocem è lateribus & faucibus elicere. Cic. Elicis & inuitas, vt quáplutima communicare tecum velim. Pli. Thou allurest and prouokest me to communitate verie many things with you. Elicere ad colloquium. Liui. To get one to come to communication. Aliquem ad dispurandum elicere. Cic. To get or bring one to dispute. Elicere ad pugnam. Liu. To allure one to fight with him. Elicere præmio, siue præmijs Cic. Hostes in suum locum elicere. Cæsa. To traine out his enimies, and make them come where he is. Acribus est stimulis eliciendus amor. Ouid. Elicienda est responsio. Cic. We must get an answeare to be made.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: aliquem hinc foras, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 17; cf. id. Men. 5, 6, 3: hostem ex paludibus silvisque, Caes. B. G. 7, 32, 2: omnes citra flumen, id. ib. 6, 8, 2: hostes in suum locum, id. ib. 5, 50, 3: aliquem ad pugnam. id. B. C. 3, 38. 1; 3, 85, 2; Liv. 2, 62; cf.: aliquem in proelium, Tac. A. 15, 13: aliquem praemiis ex civitatibus sociorum ad subeunda pericula, Cic. Balb. 9: vatem ad colloquium, Liv. 5, 15: aliquem, ut, etc., id. 6, 34 fin.; cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 7 fin.: premere ubera ad eliciendum lac, Vulg. Prov. 30, 33.—

B. In partic., in relig. lang.: Jovem, Manes, etc., to call forth, call down a god by religious rites; to raise, conjure up a departed spirit by magic arts, Ov. F. 3, 327; Plin. 28, 8, 27, 104; Arn. 5, p. 154; Cic. Vatin. 6; Tib. 1, 2, 46; Hor. S. 1, 8, 29; Stat. Th. 4, 414; Luc. 6, 733; Tac. A. 2, 28 al.—In a like sense: fulmina, to call down, Liv. 1, 20 fin.; Plin. 28, 2, 3, 13.—

II. Trop.: terra elicit herbescentem ex eo (sc. semine) viriditatem, Cic. de Sen. 15, 51: vocem, to utter, speak, Cic. Deiot. 1 fin. (but in Lucr. 3, 58, and Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57, the better reading is eicere voces): voces et querelas, id. Brut. 80, 278: sermonem, Liv. 9, 6: verbum ex eo de via ac ratione dicendi, Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 97: sonos, id. N. D. 2, 60: sententiam alicujus, id. Att. 7, 1, 5; cf.: arcana ejus, Liv. 40, 23; and, veritatem, Tac. A. 4, 45: causas praesensionum, to elicit, ascertain, Cic. Div. 1, 8: misericordiam, Liv. 8, 28; Tac. H. 3, 58; cf. cupidinem, id. A. 16, 14: iram, Curt. 8, 5 fin.: studia civium, Tac. A. 15, 33 et saep.: ferrum e terrae cavernis, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151: ignem lapidum conflictu, id. ib. 2, 9 fin.: sanguinem, id. poët. Tusc. 1, 48 fin. Kühn.; Tac. A. 12, 47: sudorem, Plin. 25, 11, 89, 189: alvum, to relax, id. 19, 5, 26, 80: lacrimas, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 13; Vell. 2, 104, 4: litteras, Cic. Att. 7, 12, 3; 9, 2: cadum, Hor. C. 4, 12, 17 et saep.