† enhappyv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To make (a person) happy; to make (an enterprise) prosperous.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > specifically a thing or enterprise
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > make happy [verb (transitive)]
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felicitate1628
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1626 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. Parl. (1783) 34 Do but enhappie him that sent it [a carcanet] in the ordinarie vse of it.
1641 J. Symonds Serm. Westminster sig. ⁋iij What better then..to see our Kingdom enhappied?
1645 City Alarum 12 The pretious Elixar, which we must seeke out to enhappie this war.
1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents 83 That Tree, so enhappy'd flourishes all Winter.
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