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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His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
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
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
To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The people felicitated themselves on the appearance of unbounded prosperity, and servile poets sung the praises of the emperor as if he were a god.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
