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expostulated

expostulated is the simple past and past participle of expostulate.

Meaning of expostulate

Verb

expostulate (third-person singular simple present expostulates, present participle expostulating, simple past and past participle expostulated)

  1. (intransitive) To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
    • 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...1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

Questions about expostulated

What is expostulated the simple past and past participle of?
Expostulated is the simple past and past participle of expostulate.

Words near expostulated in the dictionary

  1. exposomes
  2. exposomic
  3. exposomics
  4. expostfacto
  5. expostulate
  6. expostulated
  7. expostulates
  8. expostulateth
  9. expostulating
  10. expostulatingly
  11. expostulation

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