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Definition: Expostulate |
ExpostulateVerb1. Reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "expostulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Expostulate; (dissuade); admonish; (warn). |
Deprecation | Verb: deprecate, protest, expostulate, enter a protest, intercede for; remonstrate. |
Disapprobation | Remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate. |
Dissuasion | Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Expostulate |
| English words defined with "expostulate": Expostulated, Expostulating ♦ To deal with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "expostulate": Grangousier. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | More bitterly could I expostulate, Save that, for reverence to some alive, I give a sparing limit to my tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Expostulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Expostulate" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "expostulate": expostulate with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "expostulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, deliberate, discuss, dispute, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, think over, thrash out), bind (assure, bring, bring over, convince, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, persuade, prevail, prevail upon, reassure, remonstrate, rub in), arsyetoj (descant, dissert, dissertate, justify, motivate, ratiocinate, rationalize, reason, recognize, reflect, speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), إحتج (allege, complain, demur, deprecate, grouse, nag, object, pick, protest, remonstrate, represent, take exception to, yell), إعترض (bar, blockade, challenge, cross, demur, except, impugn, intercept, interpose, interrupt, intervene, object, object to, obstruct, oppose, protest, remonstrate, stop, take exception to, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увещавам (admonish, exhort, persuade, reason with, remonstrate, urge), споря (altercate, argue, cample, contend, contest, debate, dispute, higgle, jar, palter, polemize), възразявам (but, except, object, quarrel, remonstrate, reply, take up, talk back). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odrazovat (discourage, dishearten, dissuade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remontrer, récriminer, protester (take exception to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω παραστάσεισ, διαμαρτύρομαι (object to, protest, remonstrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kivizsgál (check up, overhaul, to check up, to investigate, to look into, to plumb, to see into, to sift), kifogásol (animadvert, discommend, object to, plead, take exception to, to disapprove, to find fault with, to object, to object to sg, to pass strictures on, to pass strictures upon, to rebuke, to remonstrate, to traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | protestare (complain, protest, remonstrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oltooaney (abuse, disgrace, rail against, raillery, reproach, revile, reviler, vituperate), aggyrt (claim, demand, impute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | expostulateay expostular, expositivo (expositor), protestar (challenge, clamor, clamour, outcry, protest, remonstrate), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censoring, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, find fault with, glossal, impeach, inculpation, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, Nicaragua, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate), advertir (admonish, advert, advertise, advertize, caution, forbid, forewarn, poster, publicize, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, warn). (various references) protesta (boo, kick, lodge a protest, make opposition, object, protest), obiecta (object, traverse). (various references) увещевать (coax, exhort, remonstrate, remonstrate with). (various references) raspravljati ozbiljno. (various references) tener un protesto, protestar (carry on, contest, kick, moan, obtest, protest, remonstrate, remonstration, wail, yap). (various references) protestera (kick, object, obtest, protest, remonstrate). (various references) eleştirmek (animadvert, attack, carp, censure, chastise, clobber, comment, criticize, damn, examine, notice, pan, put down, review, riddle), uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), sitem etmek (rebuke, remonstrate, reproach, reprove), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, buck, challenge, contest, contravene, demur, deprecate, dispute, except, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, remonstrate, take exception to, take objection to), öğüt vermek (advise, counsel, exhort, jaw, preach). (various references) умовляти (admonish, blandish, cajole, persuade, ply, reassure, tempt, woo, word), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, contravene, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back), протестувати (cry shame, demur, deprecate, except, object, obtest, protest, remonstrate), переконувати (admonish, argue, assure, bring, certify, convince, reason, satisfy, talk over, urge). (various references) ymliw (reproach), cyfymliw (reproach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "expostulate": expostulated, expostulates. (additional references) | |
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"Expostulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expsotulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-s-t-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: postulate, sextuplet, telotaxes, toeplates. | |
-3 letters: eelpouts, epaulets, outleaps, outleapt, outsleep, outslept, outspelt, paletots, palettes, petalous, poleaxes, sextuple, toeplate, toluates. | |
-4 letters: apostle, eelpout, eluates, epaulet, exposal, expulse, latexes, luxates, oleates, outeats, outlast, outleap, outlets, paletot, palette, pelotas, peltast, peltate, pettles, poleaxe, posttax, pottles, pulsate, puttees, septate, teapots, teleost, textual, toluate, toupees, tupelos, upstate. | |
-5 letters: apexes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-p-s-t-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: expostulated, expostulates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 70 6F 73 74 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x p o s t u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0070 006F 0073 0074 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3990828185868778678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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