What is "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.