The card of congratulations was certainly felicitous. From LearnThat.org.
A felicitous speaker. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A felicitous life. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness.". From Wordnik.com. [Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness] Reference
A performative that "works" is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
I had to look up the word "felicitous", I'll add it to my flashcard program if I remember it!. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Malin Sandström] Reference
We may be spared, hereafter, the infliction of numberless "felicitous" conjectures, on which the following is scarcely a parody. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
The book is hard to put down because of this kind of felicitous prose, but it is a long book and takes a long time to read. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
The selection could not have been more felicitous. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
I do not mean that there are no felicitous exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Scarcely more felicitous was Miss Mary Mannering with "Nancy Stair.". From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Many of the emendations suggested are more fantastic than felicitous. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
That it has vouched for him gives him a felicitous status in our society. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
There is nothing particularly felicitous in the sketch of "Aristophanes.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Upon feelings of this sort Maupassant based some of his most felicitous stories. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
His style was remarkably felicitous, and it is said that he adorned all that he touched. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
In response to written questions she asked State to answer there was this felicitous passage. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: The State Department Looks for Bliss] Reference
I have always thought that very graceful and felicitous, and now that I am myself grown to be. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
Although my domestic life has always been felicitous, I have, at times, found this knowledge very convenient. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
We could cite many instances of felicitous expression, some, also, of bad taste, and some of hasty assertion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
In the study of her character and that of her father, Mr. Taylor is perfectly at home, and extremely felicitous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
The Odes of Horace are unrivalled for their grace and felicitous language, but express no great depth of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
A telegram may convey the very apex of felicity, yet be not at all felicitous in its form or in the music of its words. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Europe, and in this felicitous, ambitionless condition, they never urgently demanded education, even for their children. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Andronicus taking advantage of this singular and felicitous incident, composed and represented regular dramas in dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
The piece contains one or two delightful passages, and is, in fact, full of happy touches and felicitous bits of description. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
It is that felicitous combination of thug and poet that makes Miles Davis the godfather of mid-century African-American music. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Miles on His 80th Birthday] Reference
He has a rare command of language, a most inventive use of metaphor, a felicitous touch in sketching a character or an incident. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
How much there is in the power of a single felicitous word in poetry, toward making a perfect picture to the mind of the reader!. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
For several years I have been in search of Aladdin's wonderful lamp to enlighten me how to effect this felicitous transformation. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
But there is reflected a homely dignity and mobile, felicitous vein in which the poet seems endowed with every attribute of a melodist. From Wordnik.com. [Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)] Reference
"I will go and consult Gaston," said Mademoiselle Félice (for that, she told me, was her pretty name, and I took it as a felicitous omen). From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
An exceedingly bright and cleverly written story; charmingly told; most especially felicitous in all that treats of southern character and life. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
That so felicitous a change is not the mere reverie of a glowing imagination, or the sheer effusion of benevolence alone, is easily demonstrable. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The hope is that they'll work, in some felicitous blend, to make AIDS a chronic, manageable condition, much like diabetes or high blood pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Aids The Next Ten Years] Reference
And there is the less felicitous Cuomo of the radio talk shows, angry, defensive, bullying callers who disagree (most local reporters know this fellow well). From Wordnik.com. [A Public Poet In Autumn] Reference
There was no one faculty predominating tyrannically over the others; all seemed proportioned in the felicitous symmetry of a nature rounded, integral, and complete. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
In the Welsh tales given of Fairy dances the music is always spoken of as most entrancing, and Shakespeare in felicitous terms gives utterance to the same thought. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The content of his work, though full of invention, lies within a somewhat narrow emotional range, but it is not less sincere in thought than polished and felicitous in phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
This is not half so felicitous a classification as would be made by a critic of our century, who should speak of the "right happy and copious industry" of Master Goethe, Master. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
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