Expostulated

I expostulated with him on his dishonesty.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?