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.
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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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