felicitate
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Thousands of people attended Sunday's event, which was held to felicitate a prominent social activist.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert.
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
I am glad to hear that you all pass'd the summer so agreably in Wales, and I felicitate you as the French say, on the Increase of your Brother's Family.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
We say one felicitates himself; tho to congratulate oneself, which is less natural, is becoming prevalent.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’
From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert
It was useless to explain that smallness sometimes renders a thing inconvenient, and this young man, doubtless, still felicitates himself upon his intimate acquaintance with that commodious pocket dictionary.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks
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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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 Derbyshire, Charles E.
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
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
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
I kept talking to him over my shoulder, and cheering him on, and he felicitated me on frogs agreeing so well with my constitution.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Grant, Gordon
Passing the hours thus, and felicitating ourselves upon the complete success of the voyage, we were in the happiest humor, and amiably awaited our next experience.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Stoddard, Charles Warren
"Though, of course, in a way, I was felicitating myself when I congratulated you."
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod
She concludes, with 'desiring to be informed of our nuptials the moment they are celebrated, that she may be with the earliest in felicitating me on the happy occasion.'
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
