Definition of "expostulated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate. (verb)

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• "He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended."
• "He responded to our “open hand” by holding a press conference with the president of Iran, during which the latter expostulated on his dream of a future Middle East “without Zionists and without colonialists”."
• "I expostulated, you advance the fact that it is your ship as though it were a moral right."