[f. ppl. stem of L. jūbilāre: see JUBIL v.]
† 1. trans. To make glad, to rejoice. Obs.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, V. § 2. 168. Musicke … iubilating the heart with pleasure.
2. intr. To utter sounds of joy or exultation; to make demonstrations of joy; to rejoice, exult. In recent newspaper use, sometimes, To celebrate a jubilee or other joyful occasion.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 205. Such as Almighty God did … replenish … could not but jubilate.
1659. Hammond, On Ps. lxxxiv. 3. To cry aloud, vociferate or jubilate.
1721. R. Keith, trans. T. à Kempis’ Vall. Lilies, xxvii. 83. O ye Cherubim and Seraphim … how fervently, and how excellently do ye sing and jubilate aloud before God.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. i. Hope, jubilating, cries aloud that it will prove a miraculous Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness.
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, III. (1871), 358. The birds are jubilating in the woods.
Hence Jubilating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1853. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., ii. Wks. I. 55. The hurrahs were yet ascending from our jubilating lips.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 4 Feb., 2/3. In this morning of glad jubilating.
