elicit

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
elicit /ɪˈlɪsɪt/

▶verb (elicits, eliciting, elicited)

• 1 evoke or draw out (a response or answer).

• 2 archaic draw forth (something latent) into existence.

– derivatives
elicitation noun,
elicitor noun.

– origin C17: from L. elicit-, elicere ‘draw out by trickery’.