different between awaken vs elicit

English

Etymology

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.

   She awakened him by ringing the bell.

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

   Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
5. (rare) past participle of awake
   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

Usage notes

This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (and also in awakens and awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.

For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.

Synonyms

• (transitive, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin elicitus from elici? (“draw forth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?s?t/

• Rhymes: -?s?t

• Homophone: illicit

Verb

elicit (third-person singular simple present elicits, present participle eliciting, simple past and past participle elicited)

1. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
2. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

   Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.

   Did you elicit a response?

   • 2009, William B. McGregor, Linguistics: An Introduction Answer Key

     He visited three department stores in New York and asked the attendant a question that would elicit the answer fourth floor; for example, he might have asked Excuse me, where are women's shoes?

3. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason

   Synonyms: deduce, construe

Translations

See also

• illicit

Adjective

elicit (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

     An elicit act of equity.

Latin

Verb

?licit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ?lici?