felicitate (felicitates, present participle felicitating; past and past participle felicitated)

1. (transitive) To congratulate.
   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 25,

     […] he waddled to the platform, bowed as low as his belly would permit, and was duly decorated and felicitated […]

• felicitation
• felicity

felicitate

1. (archaic) Made very happy.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     I am alone felicitate / In your dear highness' love.