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Definition of Remonstrate
1. Verb. Argue in protest or opposition.
2. Verb. Present and urge reasons in opposition.
3. Verb. Censure severely or angrily. "Sam cannot remonstrate Sue "; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
Specialized synonyms: Castigate, Chasten, Chastise, Correct, Objurgate, Brush Down, Tell Off
Generic synonyms: Criticise, Criticize, Knock, Pick Apart
Derivative terms: Chiding, Lecture, Rebuke, Rebuker, Reprimand, Reproof, Scolder, Scolding
Definition of Remonstrate
1. v. t. To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
2. v. i. To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation.
Definition of Remonstrate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To object; to express disapproval ((term with), (term against)). ¹
2. Verb. (context: intransitive chiefly historical) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of a remonstrance) with a monarch or other ruling body. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive often with an object consisting of direct speech or a clause beginning with that) To state or plead as an objection, formal protest, or expression of disapproval. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Remonstrate
1. [v -STRATED, -STRATING, -STRATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Remonstrate
Literary usage of Remonstrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"be excused for thinking to corrupt the fidelity of every people : but that the
Lacedaemonians, who came to remonstrate against these offers, should suppose ..."
2. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Bon-Joseph Dacier (1840)
"They were accompanied by a mendicant friar, a doctor of divinity, who had been
charged by the two cardinal-legates to remonstrate publicly with the king of ..."
3. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Dacier (1849)
"They were accompanied by a mendicant friar, a doctor of divinity, who had been
charged by the two cardinal-legates to remonstrate publicly with the king of ..."
4. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Bon-Joseph Dacier, Pierre Desrey (1867)
"They were accompanied by a mendicant friar, a doctor of divinity, who had been
charged by the two cardinal-legates to remonstrate publicly with the king of ..."
5. The Works of Nathanael Emmons: With a Memoir of His Life by Nathanael Emmons (1842)
"LI am to show, that a people have a right to remonstrate against the unlawful
... That if they do properly remonstrate, they may reasonably hope to succeed. ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"The meeting were about to draw up a remonstrance to the council of the college,
when Wakley, telling them that they ' might as well remonstrate with the ..."
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