Elicit vs Waken - What's the difference?
elicit | waken | Related terms |
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
(lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
(lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
*
*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Elicit is a related term of waken.
As verbs the difference between elicit and waken
is that elicit is to evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer while waken is (lb) to awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.As an adjective elicit
is (obsolete) elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.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.