elicitate

present singular third person elicitates · participle present elicitating · participle past elicitated · past elicitated

1. To elicit.

   Thus, markets can only elicitate environmental preferences if new property rights are introduced.

   2008, Horst Siebert, Economics of the Environment: Theory and Policy, page 71

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   The ideas elicitated in this manner, are, in every respect, similar to those proceeding from the senses.

   1832, Samuel Jackson, The Principles of Medicine, page 237

   "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.

   1878, Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story, page 195

   Well, if he is mine, why, when I wish to elicitate the truth, do you interrupt me with your ghosts?

   1887, George Webb Appleton, A Terrible Legacy: A Tale of the South Downs, page 80

   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).

   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

   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.

   2015, Alex Manfield, Real Scrum and More