Verb
To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. William Makepeace Thackeray
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. Robert Conquest
I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back. Dee Dee Ramone
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. John Dryden
With rapport and offsprings. Said to congratulate newlyweds. Arabic Proverb