Talk:elicit

Can you elicit someone e.g. She elicited the children to speak? or only objects?


 * You can "elicit speech from the children", but NOT "elicit the children to speak", and NOT "elicit the children to speak". DCDuring TALK 19:11, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Is there such a word as elicitate? (illicitate?) -- OlEnglish 10:56, 11 April 2010 (UTC)