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Definition of Expostulate

Expostulate
Expostulate Ex*pos"tu*late, v. t. To discuss; to examine. [Obs.] To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is. --Shak.
Expostulate
Expostulate Ex*pos"tu*late (?; 135), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Expostulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expostulating.] [L. expostulatus, p. p. of expostulare to demand vehemently; ex out + postulare to ask, require. See Postulate.] 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. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. --Jowett (Thuc. ). Syn: To remonstrate; reason. See Remonstrate.

Meaning of Expostulate from wikipedia

- In argumentation, an objection is a reason arguing against a premise, argument, or conclusion. Definitions of objection vary in whether an objection is...
- to whose **** and quality nothing is so improper as either needless expostulations or over much curiosity in her own actions". The advice worked. James's...
- written by Coleridge; all the other poems were written by Wordsworth. Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene, on the Same Subject Old...
- Addressed to the Duke of Norfolk on Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation". Newmanreader.org. The National Institute for Newman Studies. p. 317...
- explanations; a satisfactory response duly arrived back, notwithstanding expostulation about the propriety of all this from some of the Alexandrian Christians...
- The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation (1 ed.). London: John Murray. Retrieved 10 June 2016 – via Internet...
- The Vatican Decrees in their bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation, in which he said that after the Syllabus no one can now become [Rome's]...
- issued three epistles in the issue: A reply to the complaining people an expostulation with his brother a public decree condemning the new precepts of his...
- the order had lessened. Mysticism, full of the ideas Albertus Magnus expostulated, became the devotion of the greatest minds and hands within the organization...
- (1798) "Simon Lee" "We are Seven" "Lines Written in Early Spring" "Expostulation and Reply" "The Tables Turned" "The Thorn" "Lines Composed A Few Miles...