a. and sb. [a. F. congratulant, or ad. L. congrātulānt-em, pr. pple. of congrātulāri: see next and -ANT.]
A. adj. That congratulates; expressing congratulation. B. sb. A congratulator.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 458. Forth rush’d in haste the great consulting Peers … and with like joy Congratulant approach’d him.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVII. 31. The new-year’s gifts … were divided by us children among the inferior congratulants.
1872. Carlyle, Schiller, Suppl. 227. Rustic congratulants with their foolish rhymes would present themselves.
