felicitate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
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Archaic. to make happy.
adjective
verb
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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felicitatesimple
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felicitatessimple
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have felicitatedperfect
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has felicitatedperfect
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am felicitatingprogressive
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are felicitatingprogressive
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is felicitatingprogressive
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have been felicitatingperfect progressive
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has been felicitatingperfect progressive
Past
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felicitatedsimple
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had felicitatedperfect
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was felicitatingprogressive
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were felicitatingprogressive
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had been felicitatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of felicitate
First recorded in 1620–30; from Late Latin fēlīcitātus “made happy” (past participle of fēlīcitāre ); see felicity, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Thousands of people attended Sunday's event, which was held to felicitate a prominent social activist.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023
Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I felicitate you, Se�or Colon, on the glorious termination of this siege, and rejoice that you are here to witness it, as I had heard affairs of magnitude had called you to another country."
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
Piety hallows the dwelling which it inhabits, and felicitates as well as sanctifies the heart, the family, and the city which it pervades.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus
He felicitates himself that the labor will be light, since the material is so abundant and he is to write only for amateurs.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
Those whom our Lord felicitates are all the children of one family; and everything that can be called blessed or blessing comes of the same righteousness.
From Hope of the Gospel by MacDonald, George
Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’
From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert
To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"
From Time Magazine Archive
This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."
From Time Magazine Archive
Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality."
From Time Magazine Archive
Arrayed in the robes of his new dignity, he prepared to visit his aged parents, and felicitated himself with the raptures which the old couple would feel in embracing their son as their bishop.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angel-like, it would send forth spontaneously the felicitating streams which the Gospel appoints.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Clark, Sereno D.
Elwood was to take immediate possession, and, all the way across the prairie, was felicitating himself upon the ease and rapidity of his triumph.
From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.
When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, 'A poor prize had they obtained it—an old dying man!'
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
She concludes, with 'desiring to be informed of our nuptials the moment they are celebrated, that she may be with the earliest in felicitating me on the happy occasion.'
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
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