EXPOSTULATE

expostulate. expostulate, to reason, or chide with, to complaine:

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expostulate. Expostulate, v.i. to reason, argue, debate, dispute

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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.