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To cry up

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. ``Your gesture cries it out.''
    --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.