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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

France felicitates herself on the brilliant success of her experiment, sends over small groups of immigrants and occupies herself with projects of vast prospective value.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

Those whom our Lord felicitates are all the children of one family; and everything that can be called blessed or blessing comes of the same righteousness.

From Hope of the Gospel by George MacDonald

Pope Pius felicitated the Premier on his escape.

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

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

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

Murphy, no doubt, felicitated himself in his literary quarrel with Dr. Franklin, the poet and critical reviewer, by adopting the singular rhyme of "envy rankling" to his rival's and critic's name.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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

I wish to have the honour of felicitating her infinite happiness, and I have taken the liberty of bringing her an old family jewel for her acceptance.”

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The citizens of the United States were felicitating their brothers across the water upon the achievement of so desirable a result.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various