noun
1. imaginative re-creation (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑evoke
• Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaging, ↑imagery, ↑mental imagery
2. calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
• Syn: ↑summoning
• Hypernyms: ↑conjuring, ↑conjuration, ↑conjury, ↑invocation
• Part Holonyms: ↑exorcism, ↑dispossession
3. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
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the elicitation of his testimony was not easy
• Syn: ↑induction, ↑elicitation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑elicit (for: ↑elicitation), ↑evoke
• Hypernyms: ↑stimulation, ↑stimulus, ↑stimulant, ↑input
Useful english dictionary. 2012.