felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
felicitates
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present tense formof felicitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If she can pay off fifty or five hundred—in the time that she would give to one, she felicitates herself on her clever management.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
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
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
That poet, with frequent repetition, felicitates himself that age has not deprived him of his skill in it.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
The Commission, which has taken as its own the decision of the arbiter, approves the idea and felicitates the students on their patriotism and their thirst for knowledge—” “Well?”
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
