Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.(verb)
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Use "expostulated" in a sentence
"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."