gratulate
English
Etymology
From Latin congrātŭlor
Verb
gratulate (third-person singular simple present gratulates, present participle gratulating, simple past and past participle gratulated)
- (archaic) To express joy at (an event or situation).
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,
- To gratify the good Andronicus,
- And gratulate his safe return to Rome,
- The people will accept whom he admits.
- 1604, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell, [Scene 8],
- […] his friends and nearest companions,
- Did gratulate his safetie with kinde words,
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,
- (archaic) To greet, welcome, salute.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 1,
- Queen Elizabeth. […] Whither away?
- Lady Anne. No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,
- Upon the like devotion as yourselves,
- To gratulate the gentle princes there.
- 1822, William Wordsworth, “Recovery” (Ecclesiastical Sketches/Sonnets, VII) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827, Volume 3, p. 33,
- […] when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain
- Their cheerfulness, and busily retrim
- Their nests, or chant a gratulating hymn
- To the blue ether and bespangled plain;
- 1881, James Thomson, “Two Sonnets,” II, in Vane’s Story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, p. 166,
- Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain
- Wild discords sadder than Grief’s saddest tune
- As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain
- To over-gratulate a thrush of June.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 1,
Adjective
gratulate (comparative more gratulate, superlative most gratulate)
- (obsolete) Worthy of gratulation.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,
- Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:
- There’s more behind that is more gratulate.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,
Esperanto
Latin
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