To expostulate is to reason earnestly with someone to dissuade them.
To expostulate is to reason earnestly with someone to dissuade them.
| Front | expostulate \ik-SPOS-chuh-layt\ |
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| Back | verb intr. To reason earnestly with someone in order to dissuade. [From Latin expostulare (to require), from ex- (intensive prefix) + postulare (to demand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root prek- (to ask), which is also the source of words such as pray, precarious, deprecate, postulate, and precatory. Earliest documented use: 1548.] "'Oh come on,' I expostulated, a shade too loudly. 'That's not fair.'" - Sarabjit Jagirdar; Amar's Little Secret; Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India); Feb 7, 2010. |
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