a. Obs. [as if ad. L. ēlicitīvus, f. ēlicĕre: see ELICIT and -IVE.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, ‘elicit acts’; cf. ELICIT a.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 323. None of these actions are the formall or elicitiue actions of Religion.
1660. Stillingfl., Iren., I. ii. (1662), 41. The internal, formal, elicitive power of order, concerning things in the Church.
