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Felicitate

1. To make very happy; to delight. What a glorius 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. Every true heart must felicitate itself that its lot is cast in this kingdom. (W. Howitt)

Synonym: see Congratulate.

Origin: cf. F. Feliciter.