Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Remonstrate

Remonstrate (-str?t) , transitive verb

[Late Latin remonstratus, past participle of remonstrare to remonstrate; Latin pref. re- + monstrare to show. See Monster.]

To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obsolete] — Jer. Taylor
I will remonstrate to you the third door. — B. Jonson

Remonstrate , intransitive verb

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.
It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles. — Waterland