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expostulate en · VERB

From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.

(intransitive) To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
- Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides:
- The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life. 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
- […] he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.” 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “XI, "The Abbot’s Ways"”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Spelling	Features	Source
expostulates	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
expostulated	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
expostulated	Tense=Past	lexicographic
expostulating	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

el διαμαρτύρομαι (to protest) · ru усовещивать (to protest) · es expostular (to protest) · el επιτιμώ (to protest) · mi whakatāmaramara (to protest)