Definition of "felicitate" [fe•lic•i•tate]

• To offer congratulations to: "I felicitate you on your memory, sir” ( John Fowles). (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To make happy. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete Made happy. (adjective)

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• "Undeterred by a court verdict on March 30 sentencingfive members of a family to death for honour killing, the khaps are collecting money to "felicitate" and support the convicts 'relatives."
• "'felicitate' the forming of government after electoral victory."
• "He even had the hypocrisy, at times, to felicitate himself upon his escape, and to draw bleak fireside pictures of the dismal future which would have been had he and Frona incompatibly mated."