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In such cases [violatingduty to give pleasure toothers], 
then-fore, if the test of felieijic consequences is to be ap- 
plied there is no doubt as to the result that it will yield. 
T H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, 338. 
feldsher (feld'sher), n. [< Buss, fcliiMiert = 
Little Buss, felcher, < G. feldnelicr, faUtsekeerer 
(cf. D. veldscheerder, Dan. feltskjter, Sw. falt- 
skdr), an army surgeon, <feld, field, = E. field, felici f yt (fg-lis'i-fi), v. t. 
+ sclierer, xcheerer, barber, = E. shearer.] Ir " - 
Bussia, a surgeon's assistant; a hospital orderly 
; pret. and pp. fe- 
licitated, ppr. felicitating. [< LL. felicitatus, 
pp. of felicitare (> It. felicitare = Pg. Sp./cKei- 
tar = F.ftliciter), make happy. < L.felicita(t-)s, 
happiness : see felicity.] 1. To make happy. 
What is this Feldsher!" 
He's an old soldier who dresses wounds and gives 
y'"-" D - M ' H allMe > Kussla ' p - 69 ' 
[< L. felix (/<//<-), 
happy. + -ficare, < facere, make: see -fy.] To 
make happy ; felicitate. (Juarles. 
felicitate (fe-lis'i-tat), r. t. ; 
feldspar (feld'spar), TO. [A var. of feldspath, 
accom. to E. fpor 3 .] In mineral., one of a very 
common group of closely related minerals, all [Obsolete or rare.] 
silicates of aluminium, together with either eal- Gjfta felicitate lovers, 
cium, sodium, potassium, or in one case barium. 
They crystallize in the monoelinic or triclinic system with 
closely similar angles. The prismatic angle is not far from 
1">0 and they have two easy cleavages which make an 
angle of 90', or nearly 90', with each other. Their specific 
gravity lies between 2.6 and 2.8, and their hardness between 
6 and 7. In color they vary from clear and glassy to white, 
grayish, and light shades of yellow, red, or green, rarely 
darker green to black. They occur in distinct crystals, also 
in massive forms varying in structure from coarsely cleav- 
able to granular-crystalline, compact, and hornstone-like. 
They form an essential constituent of many of the common 
crystalline rocks, as granite, gneiss, syenite, diorite, most 
kinds of basalt, andesite, trachyte, etc. The monoelinic 
feldspars are orthoclase and hyalophane. The former is a 
potash feldspar (see orthoclase), and is the commonest of 
Loredano (trans.), p. 76 (1664). 
What a glorious entertainment and pleasure would fill 
and felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a Singh- 
survey. ^ atts. 
2. To congratulate ; compliment upon a happy 
event: as to felicitate a friend on his good for- 
tune. 
Tola felicitated himself and his partner of the watch on 
the result of their vigilance. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 41. 
Our travellers felicitated themselves upon falling into 
such good hands. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 29. 
=Syn. 2. Congratulate, Felicitate. _ See congratulation. 
the group ; the latter is a baryta feldspar, and is a rare felicitatet (fe-lis'i-tat), a. [< LL. felicitatus, 
species. Closely related to orthoclase is jthejiriclinic mi- pp. ; see the verb.] Made happy. 
croclliie (which see), having the same composition, but va- 
rying slightly in form. Besides these there are the tri- 
clinic (lime-soda) feldspars, called in general plagioclase, 
because of the oblique angle between their two cleavages, f e li c itation (fe-lis-i-ta'shon), n. [= F. felici- 
and forming a series varying progress.velyl^compos.. t ^g^ Hcitacion = ' p' g . felfcitacXo = It. 
_f_i_. _..j / T T _ if # f~iin~tn t*r*/j*. \ / ,'./:,.: 
I am alone felicitate 
In your dear highness' love. Skak., Lear, i. 1. 
tion, form, optical characters, and specific gravity from the 
lime feldspar anorthite to the sodium feldspar albite ; the 
intermediate species are considered as isomorphous com- 
pounds of these two extremes in varying proportions. 
Those ordinarily recognized are, named in order, labra- 
dorite, andesin, and oligoclase, the last approaching most 
closely to albite The increase in soda in the members of 
the series is accompanied by an increase of silica, the spe- 
cies being increasingly acidic in the order named : thus, 
anorthite contains 43 per cent, of silica, and albite 69 per 
cent. The specific gravity diminishes in the series _Irom 
Felinia 
Searle fell into unceasing talk and exhaled his swarming 
impressions witli a toaAieijtUeUy, compounded of the odd- 
est mixture of wisdom and folly. 
//. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 104. 
4. An appropriate or happy turn of thought or 
expression. 
On the whole, of Byron's style it may be said that, if it 
lias none of the subtle and riiri<nis /*</<> V/V.v in which some 
poets delight, it is yet language in its first intention, not 
reflected over or exquisitely distilled. 
J. C. Shairp, Aspects of Poetry, p. 148. 
Who will say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous 
English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the strong- 
holds of heresy in this country? . . . Its felicities often 
seem to be almost things rather than mere words. 
F. W. Faber, quoted in Dub. Kev., June, 1863. 
5. In astral., a favorable aspect. 
But they wol caste yat the! bane a fortunat planete in 
liir assendent ; and yit in his felicite, and than sey they 
yat it is wel. Chaucer. 
= Syn. 1. Blessedness, Bliss, etc. (see happiness) ; joy, 
comfort, blissfulness, success, good fortune. 3. Aptness. 
felid (fe'lid), n. One of the Felidas. 
Felidae (fe'li-de), n. pi. [NL., < Felis + -idee.] 
The cat tribe ; the typical family of feline or 
eeluroid fissiped Ferae, or terrestrial digitigrade 
carnivorous mammals. Their distinguishing char- 
acters are : normally retractile claws ; palms and soles 
hairy ; muzzle blunt, and profile of head declivous ; teeth 
28 or 30, with only one true molar in each jaw, of which 
the upper is small and tubercular and the lower sec- 
torial ; premolars f or j, canines \, incisors J ; the skull 
with no alisphenoid canal ; the auditory bulla divided into 
two chambers ; the paroccipital process close to the bulla ; 
the mastoid process slight ; the external auditory meatus 
short ; intestines with a cascum ; prostate and Cowper's 
felicitazione, < LL. as if *fettcitatio(n-), < felici- 
tare, make happy: see felicitatf.] The act of 
felicitating; expression of joy for another's 
happiness or good fortune ; congratulation. 
How radiant and level the long Road of the Future 
seemed to open before him! everywhere friends, pros- 
pects, felicitations. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 753. 
= Syn. Congratulation, Felicitation. _ See congratulation. 
cent. lie spent c gravity unmnisnes in me senesjro 11 ,?." "",,- ,.;.;,. r , <! -,., j_ ., n 
anorthite (2- 75) to albite (2.61). Certain triclinic feldspars fellCltOUS (fe-lis'l-tus), a. [(felicity + -OUS.} 
1. Characterized by or conferring happiness or 
pleasure; highly pleasing. Hence 2. Well- 
chosen; appropriate: as, & felicitous manner; a 
felicitous situation; a, felicitous reply. 
Cowper has rendered his best service to English poetry 
by showing with what felicitous grace the blank verse 
lends itself to far other styles than the stately Miltonic 
movement. J. C. Shairp, Aspects of Poetry, p. 131. 
containing considerable potash and with an angle of cleav- 
age varying but little from 90 are sometimes grouped un- 
der the name anorthoclaae. Common feldspar, or ortho- 
clase (and microcline), is much used in the manufacture 
of porcelain ; some kinds are employed for ornaments, 
as aventurin feldspar or sunstone, also moonstone (an 
opalescent variety of orthoclase), albite or oligoclase, and, 
most of all, the species labradorite, beautiful for its play 
of colors Also felspar. Blue feldspar. Same as fazu- 
lite. Glassy feldspar. See orthoclase. Labrador 
feldspar. Same as labradorite. Resplendent feld- 
spar Same as adularia or moonstone. . % T _ .. 
feldspath (f eld' spath), n. [< G. feldspath (= felicitously (fe-lis'i-tus-li), a*>. In a fell 
D. veldspaath = Dan. feldspat= Sw. faltspat), manner; happily; appropriately; aptly, 
feldspar, <feld, = E. field, + spath, spat, spar, 
MHGf. spat, laminated stone. The origin of G. 
spath is unknown; a different word from E. 
spar 2 , a. v.] Same as feldspar. 
feldspathic (feld-spath'ik), a. [< feldspath + 
= Syn. Fortunate, etc. (see happy); apt, pertinent, oppor- 
tune, well-put. 
In a felicitous 
On the part of Coleridge, of all men, it could certainly 
have demanded very little reflection to bethink himself of 
cases in which felicitously conveys one's meaning better 
than happily : the two words not being by any means 
synonymous, in the strict sense of the term. 
Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 76. 
felicity (fe-lis'i-t'i), n.; pi. felicities (-tiz). [< 
ME. feUcitee, felicity < OF. felicite, F. felicite 
-ic.] Pertaining to feldspar or containing it: felicitousness (fe-lis'i-tus-nes), . The state 
an epithet applied to any mineral in which f eld- or quality of being felicitous ; appropriateness ; 
spar predominates. Also written felspathic. aptness. Bailey, 1727. 
Near the coast [of St. Helena] the rough lava is quite 
bare ; in the central and higher parts feldspathic rocks, by 
their decomposition, have produced a clayey soil. 
Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, it. 286. 
feldspathose (feld'spath-6s), a. [< feldspath + 
-ose.\ Same as feldspathic. 
feldyfar (fel'di-far), n. An obsolete or dialec- 
tal variant of fieldfare. Macgillivray . 
feleH, v. An obsolete spelling offeefl-. 
fele a t, a. See feel 2 . 
fele 3 t, v. t. An obsolete form of f eal 2 . 
felevett, n. An obsolete form of velvet. 
felfaret, An obsolete form of fieldfare. 
Like a felfare frighted in winter by a birding-piece, I 
could settle nowhere. 
Middletm, Anything for a Quiet Life, i. 1. 
felfer (fel'fer), . A dialectal form of fieldfare. 
[Prov. Eng. (Lancashire).] 
feint (fel'fit), n. [A corruption of felfer.] The 
fieldfare ; also, erroneously, the missel-thrush. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
feliceps (fe'li-seps), . [NL., < i,. felis, a cat, 
+ caput, head.] An old name of the eagle-owl 
or great owl of Europe, Bubo maximus. Barrere, 
1745. 
Felician (fe-lish'an), n. [< Felix (Felic-) + 
-ian.] A follower of Felix, Bishop of TJrgel 
in the eighth century, chief propagator of the 
adoptian heresy. See adoptionism. 
feliciflc (fe-li-sif'ik), a. [< L. felix (felic-), 
happy, + -ficus, < facere, make.] Making hap- 
py; productive of happiness. 
No quality has ever been praised as excellent by man- 
kind generally which cannot be shewn to have some 
marked felicific effect, and to be within proper limits ob- 
viously conducive to the general happiness 
H. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 457. 
(felic-.. 
fruitful. 
see 
edness; a blissful or happy state. 
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, 
Absent thee trom felicity awhile, 
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, 
To tell my story. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
A thing beloved 
By earth and heaven : could she be 
Made for his sole felicity ! 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 36. 
2. That which produces or promotes happiness ; 
a felicitous circumstance or state of things ; a 
source of happiness: most commonly in the 
plural. 
Their high estates and felicities fell many times into 
most lowe and lamentable fortunes. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 26. 
The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete. 
Bp. Atterbury. 
3. A skilful or happy faculty or turn; felici- 
tous adroitness or propriety ; a happy knack or 
choice; appropriateness: as, a rare felicity of 
phrase. 
A painter may make a better face than ever was, but he 
must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh 
an excellent air In music), and not by rule. 
Bacon, Beauty. 
Skull of Cat (Frit's domestica}, showing the following bones, viz.: 
na, nasal ; pm, premaxillary ; rtt, maxillary ; /, lacrymal ; f, fron- 
tal ; j, jugal ; fa, palatine ; f, parietal ; so, squamosal ; if, inter- 
parietal ; so, supra-occipital; eo, exoccipital (the line leads to the 
occipital condyle); t, tympanic bulla; smf, stylomastoid foramen; 
mf, mental foramen ; f, coronoid process of mandible ; ar, ascend- 
ing ramus of mandible ; Ar, horizontal ramus of mandible; aft, angle 
ofjaw. 
glands present; and the penis-l>one rudimentary. The do- 
mestic cat is a characteristic example, all the species hav- 
ing the same family traits and habits as well as structure. 
They are numerous, distributed over nearly all parts of the 
world excepting the Australian region, especially in tem- 
perate and tropical countries ; none is common to the old 
and new worlds. The family is very homogeneous, and all 
the species were formerly included in the genus Felis. It 
includes, besides the common cat, the lion, tiger, jaguar, 
leopard, panther, cougar, ocelot, ounce, caracal, serval, 
lynx, chetah, etc. The Felidat are divisible into three sub- 
families ; Felince, the true cats ; Guepardimx, the hunting- 
leopards ; and Machttrodontince, the fossil saber-toothed 
feliform (fe'li-f6rm), a. [< L. felis, a cat, + 
forma, form.] Having the form or aspect of a 
cat. 
1[NL., < Felis, q. v., + 
e true cats, a subfamily 
_ all the living species ex- 
cepting the chetah, having perfectly retractile 
claws, the upper canines moderate and cylin- 
droconic, and the upper sectorial tooth with an 
antero-internal lobe. The group is coextensive 
with the genus Felis in a broad sense. 
feline (fe'lin or -lin), a. and . [= F.felin = 
Pg. It. felino, < LL. felimts, of or belonging to 
a cat, < li. felis, a cat: see Felis.] L a. 1. Cat- 
like in form or structure, as an animal; of or 
pertaining to the Felicia;, FeUnce, or genus Felis ; 
typically seluroid. 2. Pertaining to or char- 
acteristic of animals of the cat tribe ; cat-like 
in character or quality; resembling a cat in 
any respect: often applied to persons: as, feline 
softness of step ; feline stealthiness, cruelty, or 
treachery. 
His eyes were yellow, feline, and restless. 
T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, iv. 
II. n. One of the Felidce or Felines; a feline 
or cat-like animal ; in popular use, a domestic 
cat. 
Over a hundred years ago, it is said, a great battle of 
felines took place in the neighborhood of the town, which 
was participated in by all the cats in the city and county 
of Kilkenny, aided and abetted by cats from other parts 
of Ireland. Amer S and Q., I. 269 
Bartholomew Dandridge, son of a house painter, had 
great business from his felicity in taking a likeness. _ .. ._ .. ,. . r , TT /TT f-jj n , 
Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, IV. iii. Felinia (fe-hn i-a), . [NL., < LL. felmus, cat- 
like : see feline.] A genus of noctuid moths, of 
the subfamily Kemiginte, with extraordinarily 
He [Gray] had exquisite felicity of choice. 
Lovxll, Study Windows, p. 118. 
