felicitate

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

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

I felicitate you on the superior and lofty aims which have drawn you together.

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell

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

The bridegroom goes to bring his retinue to escort the bride home, and St. Bris felicitates himself for bringing about this union which wipes out the disgrace of Raoul's refusal.

From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls

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 John Hendricks Bechtel

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

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

Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

As for the worthy Freytag, he felicitated himself highly on the way he had handled that dabbler in poeshy.

From Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German by Charles Morris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Even in that hour of supreme anxiety he could not help felicitating himself on the successful application of pony docility to horsey self-will.

From Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

Angel-like, it would send forth spontaneously the felicitating streams which the Gospel appoints.

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