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
Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement.
From Time Magazine Archive
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
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
Since I cannot make myself happy, I will have the glory to felicitate another: and, therefore, I declare, I will reward the fidelity of Don Lopez.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
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 married woman felicitates herself greatly, unless a tall daughter of nine or ten walks abroad at her side.
From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed
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 Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late Presidential election.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln
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
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
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
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
Margaret came over with Madam Rushleigh, and felicitated herself and friend, impetuously.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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 Gordon Grant
In an important sense, you may preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to the nations, thereby becoming a coadjutor in a work, the sublimest of heaven and the most felicitating to man.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
Other listeners were crowding upon them now, commending the fire-tipped words, felicitating the man with pretty gesture and soft speech, patronising him for the Parthenon and his country and her art.
From Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee
Some people are felicitating themselves that the strike has been suppressed, but the safety valve has been screwed down, that's all.
From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns
