a. Ethics. [ad. L. fēlīcificus, f. fēlīci-, fēlix happy + -ficus making: see -FIC.] Making or tending to make happy; productive of happiness.
1865. J. Grote, Moral Ideas, x. (1876), 205. Concentrate your felicific effort where you can make tolerably sure that none of it will be lost.
1874. Sidgwick, Meth. Ethics, xiv. 371. Even when its ‘felicific’ tendency is not at first apparent, it may be made clear on further consideration.
1877. J. Sully, Pessimism, 164. Knowledge of the real felicific value of life.
