They [the publicans and harlots] are moved by shame, and punished by disgrace, and remarked by punishments, and frighted by the circumstances and notices of all the world, and separated from sober persons by laws and an intolerable character.—Bishop Taylor, Of Lukewarmness and Zeal, Serm. 13, part ii.
Officer. Hebrews, the prisoner Samson here I seek.
Chorus. His manacles remark him; there he sits.
Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1308.
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Its present sense, namely to expostulate, was only at a late date superinduced on the word. ‘To remonstrate’ is properly to make any show or representation in regard to some step that has been taken. It is now only such show or representation as protests against this step; and always assumes this step to have been distasteful; but this limitation lies not of necessity in the word.
Properties of a faithful servant: a sedulous eye, to observe all occasions within or without, tending to remonstrate the habit within.—Rogers, Naaman the Syrian, p. 309.
It [the death of Lady Carbery] was not (in all appearance) of so much trouble as two fits of a common ague; so careful was God to remonstrate to all that stood in that sad attendance that this soul was dear to Him.—Bishop Taylor, Funeral Sermon on Lady Carbery.
I consider that in two very great instances it was remonstrated that Christianity was the greatest persecution of natural justice and equality in the whole world.—Id., Life of Christ, Preface, § 32.
When Sir Francis Cottington returned with our king’s oath, plighted to the annexed conditions for the ease of the Roman Catholics, the Spaniards made no remonstrance of joy, or of an ordinary liking of it.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part i. p. 145.