Definition of "felicitate" verb third-person singular simple present felicitates , present participle felicitating , simple past and past participle felicitated
(transitive) To congratulate . quotations examples
Quotations […] we contemplate death under quite a different aspect ;—creating in us such sweet influences of joy , that our beloved brethren , under one common Father , have attained what we ought all to be in search of , the heavenly goal , that rather than repine at this their advancement , we sincerely felicitate them .
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 196
adjective comparative more felicitate , superlative most felicitate
(archaic) Made very happy . quotations
Quotations I am alone felicitate / In your dear highness ' love .
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]