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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

Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers.

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

As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.

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

Piety hallows the dwelling which it inhabits, and felicitates as well as sanctifies the heart, the family, and the city which it pervades.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox

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

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 James Champlin Fernald

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

His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.

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

Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.

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

Then the sound of Ibarra’s trowel was heard, accompanied by the low murmur of the clerks’ voices as they felicitated the alcalde on his speech.

From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the moment we are felicitating ourselves—or, is it merely confusing ourselves?—over the revolution in Russia.

From Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

"My thought just then was that I should prize your friendship above any other woman's love, and I had been felicitating myself that Stella Wildmere would never have the right to criticise the fact."

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe

When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, 'A poor prize had they obtained it—an old dying man!'

From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang

Elwood was to take immediate possession, and, all the way across the prairie, was felicitating himself upon the ease and rapidity of his triumph.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley