congratulating

Congratulatory; that is giving congratulations.

Mrs. Buckle was delivered of twins. "A pair of Buckles!" "Boys or girls?" inquired a congratulating friend the answer may be supposed.

His face grew sadder as the ceremony proceeded, and at last when the bride left the church, surrounded by a congratulating crowd, his eyes assumed the fixed look of a doomed man.

Gratifying; pleasing.

Bells, as they are kind of musical instruments, spread (upon occasion) a congratulating joy in those towns, cities, and places, whre they are rung; so the gospel sound spreads a congratulating joy in the assemblies of Zion, the cities of our GOD;

But although this extremely hot weather has been unfavourable in these few, yet, I believe, it may be more congratulating to the majority to know that, upon the whole, it has been serviceable to pulmonary and some other dreadful diseases; to some obstinate forms of cutaneous eruptions, comprehended under the term scorbutic by some of the older ignoramuses, from disordered stomachs, by using too much animal food, along with late hours and tipling, by taking away their appetites; to gouts, by administering to them solar heat, instead of warmth derived from the brandy bottle, or a pill or potion; to children with mesenteric disease and scrofula; to palsies; to dropsies, and almost all other chronic diseases from diseased viscera; and in short, has been an absolute fiat to many which, in bad weather, are nearly as extensive, but more destructive than fevers, so that we have little reason to complain, seeing that it has not only resuced and benefitted those unfortunates sufferning under diseases of the lungs, and chronic ailments from the inclemencies of winter, but it has also been favourable to, and much improved the growth of, all kinds of vegetation, and made the whole face of nature look cheerful and gay.

The act by which someone is congratulated; congratulation.

As, when speaking familiarly we say of a new-married couple, they are gone to pass the honey-moon together; seems, te pas, de hou-inne hije muê hun: q. e. it is quite right, the visiting and receiving troubles tires them; it is as it ought to be, for the congratulatings and ceremonial visits molests and fatigues them; […]

It will be a mighty host, that company of the Redeemed! To say nothing of the babes who have died in infancy, untasted by them the cup of sin which the world administers to its votaries—not counting those cherubs numerous as the stars of the milky way, what crowds shall be there of those who had repented them of their sins before their day of grace was past and gone; and Oh, what greetings and congratulatings of long separated friends!