They fight with an enthusiasm and courage worthy of a better cause, and have evinced a humanity to their wounded adversaries that elicits admiration even from those who are the most opposed to the cause they have espoused.
The judge is perplexed until, by a series of questions, he elicits the fact that the witness means his "little" father, equivalent to our term uncle.
Like a harp of a thousand strings, her nature, if rudely approached, is jarred responsively, while the gentlest touch elicits an harmonious thrill.
The tongue is apt to be coated, although it may remain clean; the taste is bad, and pressure over the stomach and bowels occasionally elicits considerable pain; an aching pain over the sternum is also noted.
These are those obvious evidences of deviation from health which the patient himself is aware of, or which the physician readily discerns or elicits by simple inquiry or examination.
Charm elicits love and prompts a person to the bestowal of favors.
Such "sensible qualities," therefore, belong in part to the objects which provoke sense perception, and in part to the sentient subject which elicits the conscious act.
It is told that he taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath, but no notion is given of the how; we get only something of what he said outside the synagogue, usually through a special incident which elicits it.
A pleasant topic not only interests the intellect but alsoelicits a positive response from the emotions; but most unpleasant topics are positively interesting to the intellect alone.
Nevertheless the ingenious dialectic of Plato accomplishes the task, andelicits from each proposition a Both, and a Neither, respecting several predicates of Unum as well as of Caetera.
Numerous examples of this sort of hand-carved mantels are to be found in Philadelphia, but none elicits greater admiration than those in two rooms at Upsala which are shown by accompanying illustrations.
Apparently she is entering into his delusion, whose whole range she elicitsfrom him, without once opposing him.
It elicits a reply in which the cheek of the "beautiful and benignant nature," of which she speaks, undergoes a considerable amount of artificial coloring.
Charity inclines one to the act of martyrdom, as its first and chief motive cause, being the virtue commanding it, whereas fortitude inclines thereto as being its proper motive cause, being the virtue that elicits it.
The other principle of the sinful act is the proper and proximate principle which elicits the sinful act: thus the concupiscible is the principle of gluttony and lust, wherefore these sins are said to be in the concupiscible.
Charity elicitsthe act of love not only as regards the object, but also as regards the lover, as stated above.
The act of faith is virtual, when one elicits the act of some other supernatural virtue without thinking expressly about faith; for faith is presupposed by all other supernatural virtues, since one cannot wish what one does not believe.
It is made in itself, when one elicits or expresses love; it is made in its manifestations, when one performs an act of virtue distinct from charity.
Faith elicits the external act of profession of faith as its own proper external act directed to its own specific end: "I believed, for which cause I have spoken" (Ps.
In Egypt there are hospitals for superannuated cats, and the most loathsome insects are regarded with tenderness; but human life is treated as if it were of no account, and human suffering scarcely elicits a care.
It elicits in the highest degree strength of character, accustoms men to the abnegation needed for simultaneous action, compels them to repress their fears, and establish a firm control over their affections.
His childlike genius, like the well-known child forms of antiquity, plays with the mask, elicits laughter, awakens delight and terror.
Debate not only elicits opinions but also suggests alternatives and compromises, and very few measures are carried by a majority which do not bear clear traces of the action of the minority.
Nor need reason come first and faith second (though this is the logical order), but one and the same teaching is in different aspects both object and proof, and elicits one complex act both of inference and of assent.
I am not denying that the assent which it inculcates and elicits is genuine as regards its contracted range of doctrine, but it is at best notional.
Inquiry to that effect, as usual, elicits nothing but a bland grin from Yung Po.
My explanation that I am bound in the other direction elicits sundry additional bobbings of the head and soothing utterances and smiles, but he points reassuringly to the ferry.
This is to ensure the greater success, because it engenders the greater prejudice, or in other words, elicits less interest on the part of the oppressing class, in their favor.
Our cause is a just one; the greatest at present that elicits the attention of the world.
Thus closeted with the peon--still wondering why he has been made a prisoner--Uraga submits him to a process of examination, which elicits from the scared creature everything he seeds to know.
Nothing like your vin mousseux for a critical moment,--every bubble that rises sparkling to the surface prompts some bright thought, or elicits some brilliant idea, that would only have been drowned in your more sober fluids.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elicits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
