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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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mrs. Lawson felicitated herself on the event, and hoped that the old man would remain some time with his relative.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As they descended towards the river, and O'Reily was just felicitating himself "that there was a clane path intirely across the stream."

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, 'A poor prize had they obtained it—an old dying man!'

From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang

The girls in their song have been felicitating themselves that if they are zealous at their spinning their lovers will give them the golden earnings they bring home from the south.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various