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Webster 1913 Edition
Felicitate
Fe-lic′i-tate
,Adj.
Made very happy.
[Archaic]
I am alone
In your dear highness’ love.
felicitate
In your dear highness’ love.
Shakespeare
Fe-lic′i-tate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Felicitated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
felicitating
.] [Cf. F.
féliciter
.] 1.
To make very happy; to delight.
What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and
felicitate
his spirit. I. Watts.
2.
To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.
Syn. – See
Congratulate
. Webster 1828 Edition
Felicitate
FELIC'ITATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make very happy.What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a single survey.
More generally,
2.
To congratulate; to express joy or pleasure to. We felicitate our friends on the acquisition of good, or an escape from evil.FELIC'ITATE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
felicitate
felicitate
English
Verb
felicitate (third-person singular simple present felicitates, present participle felicitating, simple past and past participle felicitated)
- (transitive) To congratulate.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 25,
- […] he waddled to the platform, bowed as low as his belly would permit, and was duly decorated and felicitated […]
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 25,
Related terms
Translations
congratulate — see congratulate
Adjective
felicitate (comparative more felicitate, superlative most felicitate)
- (archaic) Made very happy.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare:
- I am alone felicitate / In your dear highness' love.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare:
Italian
Verb
felicitate
- second-person plural present indicative of felicitare
- second-person plural imperative of felicitare
- Feminine plural of felicitato