Crossword clues for felicitate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felicitate \Fe*lic"i*tate\, a. [L. felicitatus, p. p. of felicitare to felicitate, fr. felix, -icis, happy. See felicity.] Made very happy. [Archaic]
I am alone felicitate
In your dear highness' love.
--Shak.
Felicitate \Fe*lic"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felicitated; p. pr. & vb. n. felicitating.] [Cf. F. f['e]liciter.]
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To make very happy; to delight.
What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit.
--I. Watts. -
To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to; to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.
Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom.
--W. Howitt.Syn: See Congratulate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to render happy" (obsolete); 1630s, "to reckon happy;" from Late Latin felicitatus, past participle of felicitare "to make happy," from Latin felicitas "fruitfulness, happiness," from felix "fruitful, fertile; lucky, happy" (see felicity). Meaning "congratulate, compliment upon a happy event" is from 1630s. Related: Felicitated; felicitating. Little-used alternative verb form felicify (1680s) yielded adjective felicific (1865).
Wiktionary
(context archaic English) Made very happy. v
(context transitive English) To congratulate.
WordNet
v. express congratulations [syn: congratulate]
Usage examples of "felicitate".
She showed it first to Sophy, resolutely begging her to felicitate her upon her happiness.
If I cannot felicitate you upon the contract you are no doubt about to enter into, at least I can pray that you may not be too sadly disappointed in the character of the lady you mean to marry!
But when Norm had finished his explanation they knew all about it, and offered their congratulations in the shy and affectedly casual manner in which people felicitate acquaintances.
Torisen, rather cautiously, felicitated the Prince on gaining Caineron's daughter as a consort.
Simms, Southern poet and novelist, writing in 1852, felicitates himself as being among the first who about fifteen years earlier advocated slavery as a great good and a blessing.
He felicitates himself that, when he gets it once planted, he will have a season of rest and of enjoyment in the sprouting and growing of his seeds.
The Beau was felicitating himself that the foreigners had not arrived a week earlier, in which case he and Bath would have been detected in a piece of gross ignorance concerning the French nobility - making much of de Mirepoix's ex-barber.