The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of felicitate English)
Usage examples of "felicitating".
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.