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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

“The note said, ‘It would felicitate me if you, my dear Cousin Helen, and my younger cousin, Wilhelmina, and your three American friends, will lunch with me this afternoon at half past one.’”

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

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

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

Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm

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

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

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

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

Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 James Fenimore Cooper

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The duty of this reassurance devolved on me, but the complicated system of telephoning spared me the torture of felicitating her.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

As they descended towards the river, and O'Reily was just felicitating himself "that there was a clane path intirely across the stream."

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

"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