sympathy + -ism sympathism (uncountable) (psychology) The habit of positioning oneself as a victim or martyr so as to elicit sympathy from others....
translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. a. 2011, speaker in elicitation context (ELICIT:Preg.002), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire...
to force (either oneself, or something abstract or conceptual) upon another person in an inconveniencing manner, especially to elicit some behavior: to...
practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510: One can readily elicit knismesis in oneself (this is easily demonstrated by dragging a fingernail lightly...
trouble: ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration...
the ushers in a non-reserved situation are responsible for dressing the house—that is, seating the audience so as to elicit the maximum response, […]...
freely. (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it. (mining)...
music: modos facere to make a marble statue: simulacrum e marmore facere to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare to give public games...
or influence (someone) by arguing or contending. Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining. 1624, William Simons...