What's the difference between expostulate and expostulated?
Expostulate
Definition:
(v. i.) To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To discuss; to examine.
Example Sentences:
(1) This behavior and other facts regarding double Soret spectra can be explained by a simple expostulation involving lipophilic and corrdinate binding of pi-acceptor ligands.
(2) Updated at 5.49pm GMT 3.26pm GMT During the session, The Times's correspondent Juliet Samuel tweeted a couple of highlights that I didn't manage to get into the blog: Juliet Samuel (@CitySamuel) V surprising Goldman admit they don't even look up what institutions actually pay vs what they claim they'd pay in negotiations #royalmail November 20, 2013 Juliet Samuel (@CitySamuel) Nadhim Zahawi love-in with bankers as he expostulates that #royalmail price will take "a long time to settle".
(3) Sad: what makes Donald Trump happy A close cousin to “Bad!” (qv) , “Sad!” is probably the favourite among admirers of the president’s climactic expostulations, because it encapsulates perfectly his weirdly emotional, bullying style.
(4) (1969), a dully temporising Hollywood account of the life of Che Guevara, in which at one point Sharif’s Guevara is confronted by Jack Palance ’s Fidel Castro with the mumbled expostulation: “Che, sometimes I just don’t understand you.” The Last Valley (1971) and The Horsemen (1971) were poorly rated would-be spectacles.
Expostulated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Expostulate
Example Sentences:
(1) This behavior and other facts regarding double Soret spectra can be explained by a simple expostulation involving lipophilic and corrdinate binding of pi-acceptor ligands.
(2) Updated at 5.49pm GMT 3.26pm GMT During the session, The Times's correspondent Juliet Samuel tweeted a couple of highlights that I didn't manage to get into the blog: Juliet Samuel (@CitySamuel) V surprising Goldman admit they don't even look up what institutions actually pay vs what they claim they'd pay in negotiations #royalmail November 20, 2013 Juliet Samuel (@CitySamuel) Nadhim Zahawi love-in with bankers as he expostulates that #royalmail price will take "a long time to settle".
(3) Sad: what makes Donald Trump happy A close cousin to “Bad!” (qv) , “Sad!” is probably the favourite among admirers of the president’s climactic expostulations, because it encapsulates perfectly his weirdly emotional, bullying style.
(4) (1969), a dully temporising Hollywood account of the life of Che Guevara, in which at one point Sharif’s Guevara is confronted by Jack Palance ’s Fidel Castro with the mumbled expostulation: “Che, sometimes I just don’t understand you.” The Last Valley (1971) and The Horsemen (1971) were poorly rated would-be spectacles.