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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

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

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

“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

How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller

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

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

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

But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."

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

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

As a disciplinary design he felicitated himself as having hit upon the most humiliating and distasteful position in Keno.

From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Me, I will have the air of felicitating myself that I am alive.

From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"You'll soon be travelling south, I'm thinking, Captain Gar'ner?" called out this worthy, again, in a sort of felicitating way--"Them's your chaps, and they'll set you up."

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper

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

From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

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