felicitate
Americanverb (used with object)
-
felicitates,
present (3rd person singular)
-
felicitated,
past participle, past
-
felicitating
present participle
-
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
-
Archaic. to make happy.
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
-
felicitatesimple
-
felicitatessimple
-
have felicitatedperfect
-
has felicitatedperfect
-
am felicitatingprogressive
-
are felicitatingprogressive
-
is felicitatingprogressive
-
have been felicitatingperfect progressive
-
has been felicitatingperfect progressive
Past
-
felicitatedsimple
-
had felicitatedperfect
-
was felicitatingprogressive
-
were felicitatingprogressive
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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
Permit me, sir, to felicitate you upon the extreme prowess of the British army.”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
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
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
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
Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.
From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey
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
Pope Pius felicitated the Premier on his escape.
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
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
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
Ellis heartily felicitated herself upon every occasion, by which she could lessen obligations of which she now felt the full weight, and, with the utmost alacrity, took her harp.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He came up behind them presently—approaching so close under cover of the fog that he could hear Dan Hicks and Jack Flaherty, both under a dead-slow bell, felicitating each other through their megaphones.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
The citizens of the United States were felicitating their brothers across the water upon the achievement of so desirable a result.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
