felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
felicitated
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past participleof felicitate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof felicitate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the annual dinner of the Academy in 1859, Lord Lyndhurst felicitated those present on the benefits which were conferred upon all her majesty's subjects by the Academy schools.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
