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
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
"At eight we breakfast here; at nine you are free to promenade in the garden or on the terrace,—at least, all who are not au secret,—and I have to felicitate monsieur on that pleasure."
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
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
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
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
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
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
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
The people felicitated themselves on the appearance of unbounded prosperity, and servile poets sung the praises of the emperor as if he were a god.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
In an important sense, you may preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to the nations, thereby becoming a coadjutor in a work, the sublimest of heaven and the most felicitating to man.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
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
