Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct; remonstrate. synonym: object.
- intransitive verb To say in protest; object.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reason earnestly with a person against something that he intends to do or has done: followed by with before the person, by upon or on before the thing.
- Synonyms Expostulate with, Reprove, Rebuke, Reprimand, etc. See
censure , and list under remonstrate. - To discuss; examine into; reason about.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To discuss; to examine.
- intransitive verb To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by
with .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
protest orremonstrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Only if he had that kind of expostulate during football games.
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Only if he had that kind of expostulate during football games.
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The expostulate would case with 4th & fourteen from the VU 43, as great as Nova would punt the round behind to UNH.
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"Do we know anyone with a automobile who could expostulate me down there? we mean, it's not which far of a drive ...."
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"Do we know anyone with a automobile who could expostulate me down there? we mean, it's not which far of a drive ...."
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With Nova starting upon the own 23, Whi! tney wou ld lead Nova upon an eight-play 20-yard expostulate which would consume the small some-more than 4 minutes.
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It was in vain to expostulate with the palefaced Spectre who directed our course, I found myself surrounded by a hubbub of voices, and trunks of old clothes, (you know I am always busy in that way in my sleep) and the roar of the Sea-beach, mingled with loud discharges of immense Artillery place'd on Cliffs over our heads.
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Novas expostulate would begin during the 23, as great as the offense would pierce the round eight yards in 3 plays, afterwards punt.
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The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
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Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU.
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Moonlitegarden commented on the word expostulate
From the story, man of la Mancha... meaning to declare passionately, loudly,
June 13, 2012
dailyword commented on the word expostulate
Holmes and Watson would do this while working on their cases.
July 26, 2012