0 to praise someone and say that you approve of or are pleased about a special or unusual achievement:
The entire organization should be felicitated.
It is my happy privilege once again to felicitate a number of speakers upon their maiden speeches.
I should like to felicitate them upon the will they have shown in taking advantage of the opportunity offered.
I think we may all felicitate them on the very happy discharge of a very difficult task.
I should like to felicitate him upon it.
We felicitate him on the success which he has attained.
I think he ought to be felicitated on one of those two results.
That is something upon which we may felicitate ourselves.
I felicitate him upon his return.
