felicitious

• Mordechai Bloi of the Guardians of Sanctity and Education put it in perhaps less than perfectly felicitious terms: —  Jewlicious
• I spent a couple of highly diverting hours at bitterandrew's superb blog and found not only excellent -- and often rare -- tuneage but felicitious writing and piquant posts built around what appears to be a staggeringly extensive comic book collection. —  Powerpopulist
• This was not a felicitious opening. —  What Diantha Did
• These results are arrived at by fixing the attention upon the fact that an ordinary man and an ordinary woman are, from the point of view of memory and apprehension, very much on a level; and that a highly intelligent woman has a quicker memory and a more rapid power of apprehension than the ordinary man; and further, by leaving out of regard that it is not so much a quick memory or a rapid power of apprehension which is required for effective intellectual work, as originality, or at any rate independence of thought, a faculty of felicitious generalisations and diacritical judgment, long-sustained intellectual effort, an unselective mirroring of the world in the mind, and that relative immunity to fallacy which goes together with a stable and comparatively unresponsive nervous system. —  The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
• He has none of these felicitious epithets, none of those pregnant lines, by which Pope’s Satires have enriched the ordinary speech of educated men. —  The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete

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