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De - Pt| English Dictionary: to cry up | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cry \Cry\, v. t. 1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. --Shak. The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! --Bunyan. 2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep. 3. To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. Love is lost, and thus she cries him. --Crashaw. 4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. --Judd. {To cry aim}. See under {Aim}. {To cry down}, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. --Tillotson. {To cry out}, to proclaim; to shout. [bd]Your gesture cries it out.[b8] --Shak. {To cry quits}, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest. {To cry up}, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently. | |
