Elicit vs Devise - What's the difference?
elicit | devise |
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.
(obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
* Jeremy Taylor
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
In obsolete terms the difference between elicit and devise
is that elicit is elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident while devise is to imagine; to guess.As an adjective elicit
is elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.As a noun devise is
the act of leaving real property in a will.elicit
English
Verb
(en verb)- Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.
- ''Did you elicit a response?
See also
* illicitAdjective
(-)- An elicit act of equity.
devise
English
(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
- (Spenser)
Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.