Both Uses of
elicit
in
The Great Gatsby
- It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart.
p. 66.8elicited = got or brought out in response
- James Gatz — that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career — when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior. ... Cody asked him a few questions (one of them elicited the brand new name) and found that he was quick and extravagantly ambitious.
p. 100.2 *
Definition:
get or bring out in response -- such as information or a feeling