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
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
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
A word to the wise, etc., and let me speedily have occasion to felicitate you in like manner.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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 Zahm, John Augustine
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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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 Whiting, Lilian
Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.
From The Foot-path Way by Torrey, Bradford
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 Cox, Francis Augustus
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
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
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
Concealing some boys in a wood, he got up a mock battle with them, and at its end congratulated the troops on their valor and felicitated himself on his success.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has the air of felicitating herself that she is dead.
From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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 Grant, Gordon
And he will send off dispatches felicitating his chief on having got that fortress off their hands, together with all the worry and expense it has been to them.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Did it recognize smaller butterflies—the white and the yellow, and even the diminutive "copper"—as poor relations; felicitating itself, meanwhile, upon its own superior size, its brilliant orange-red eye-spots, and its gorgeous tails?
From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford
