elicitive

Adjective

elicitive (comparative more elicitive, superlative most elicitive)

1. Pertaining to elicitation.
   • We own, That as he ought to take care of the Maintenance of the Miniſtry, Schools, and Poor, ſo imperatively he may command Church Officers to do their Duties; yet we deny him an elicitive Power, either to do himſelf what is incumbent to Church Officres,^([sic]) or to depute others to adminiſter...1687, James Renwick, Alexander Shiells, “The Declaration of the Present State of Our Testimony”, in An Informatory Vindication of a Poor, Wasted, Misrepresented Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-popish...
   • The will, therefore, considered as an elicitive principle, would be both active and passive in seeking the end.1951, Thomas E. Davitt, “John Duns Scotus”, in The Nature of Law, St. Louis, Mo.; London: B. Herder Book Co., →OCLC, part I (The Primacy of the Will in the Concept of Law), section I, page 29