expostulate
/ɛksˈpɒstjʊleɪt/ · verb
Meaning
- To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
Etymology / origin
From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.
- *preḱ-(ine-pro)→
- expostulate (English)
- Relations: root
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