felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
felicitates
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present tense formof felicitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The Commission, which has taken as its own the decision of the arbiter, approves the idea and felicitates the students on their patriotism and their thirst for knowledge—” “Well?”
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
He moreover felicitates himself upon the fact that his conciliatory course gained him votes.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
The bridegroom goes to bring his retinue to escort the bride home, and St. Bris felicitates himself for bringing about this union which wipes out the disgrace of Raoul's refusal.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
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 George MacDonald
