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"Section C"

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.


Cry (kr?), n.; pl.
Cries (kr&?;z). [F. cri, fr.
crier to cry. See Cry, v. i. ]
1. A loud utterance; especially, the
inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the
cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.

Milton.


2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular
demand.


Again that cry was found to have been as
unreasonable as ever.


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