felicitate
Americanverb (used with object)
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felicitates,
present (3rd person singular)
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felicitated,
past participle, past
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felicitating
present participle
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to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
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Archaic. to make happy.
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
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
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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
With one exception, they were all on hand to welcome and felicitate the same person, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan, whose stout auxiliary schooners were nearing the harbor after a summer in the Arctic.
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
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
A word to the wise, etc., and let me speedily have occasion to felicitate you in like manner.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
France felicitates herself on the brilliant success of her experiment, sends over small groups of immigrants and occupies herself with projects of vast prospective value.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late Presidential election.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln
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
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 Calvin Thomas
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 John Augustine Zahm
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn.
From Time Magazine Archive
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
From Time Magazine Archive
James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the sound of Ibarra’s trowel was heard, accompanied by the low murmur of the clerks’ voices as they felicitated the alcalde on his speech.
From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the moment we are felicitating ourselves--or, is it merely confusing ourselves?--over the revolution in Russia.
From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
Our sanitary reformers, also, are felicitating themselves on the spread of their principles to the West, seeing that the first Baths for the People were opened in New York a few weeks since.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by William Chambers
The first was felicitating himself on his sister's escape; the latter received the lesson that teaches prudence a la distance.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson
The girls in their song have been felicitating themselves that if they are zealous at their spinning their lovers will give them the golden earnings they bring home from the south.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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