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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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
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
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
As a disciplinary design he felicitated himself as having hit upon the most humiliating and distasteful position in Keno.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
