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▪ I. decry, v.|dɪˈkraɪ|
Also 6–7 decrie. pa. tense and pple. decried.
[a. F. décrier, in 14th c. descrier, f. des-, de- (see de- I. 6) + crier to cry. In Eng. the prefix appears always to have been taken in sense ‘down’: see de- I. 4.]
1. trans. To denounce, condemn, suppress, or depreciate by proclamation; = cry down (cry v. 17 a); chiefly said of foreign or obsolete coins; also to bring down the value (of any article) by the utterance or circulation of statements.
1617Moryson Itin. i. iii. vi. 289 Having a singular Art to draw all forraine coynes when they want them, by raising the value, and in like sort to put them away, when they haue got abundance thereof, by decrying the value. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iv. (1821) 267 The calling downe, and decrying of all other Moneys whatsoever. 1697Evelyn Numism. vi. 204 Many others [medals of Elagabalus] decried and called in for his infamous life. 1710Whitworth Acc. Russia (1758) 80 Next year..the..gold..was left without refining, which utterly decried those Ducats. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 278 The king may..decry, or cry down, any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current. 1844Act 7–8 Vict. c. 24 §4 Spreading..any false rumour, with intent to enhance or decry the price of any goods.
2. To cry out against; to disparage or condemn openly; to attack the credit or reputation of; = cry down (cry 17 b).
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 75 We goe..to law one with another (which S. Paul so decryed). 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. Pref. 1 All men..have with one voice commended Virtue, and decried Vice. 1665Pepys Diary 27 Nov., The goldsmiths do decry the new Act. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. Pref., ‘Who is this’, says one, ‘that is come to decry our waters?’ 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. II. 105 He does not so much decry Aristotle, as the idolatry of Aristotle. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 371 The zeal with which the Church decried the taking of interest or usury.
Hence deˈcrying vbl. n.
1633[see 1 above]. 1637State Trials, John Hampden (R.), There hath been a decrying by the people and they have petitioned in parliament against it. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. vi. 84 A general decrying of arms.
▪ II. † deˈcry, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. vb.]
The decrying (of money); decrial.
1686tr. Chardin's Trav. i. 9 The English were the Procurers of this Decry. For had that Money continu'd Currant, their Trade had been ruin'd. |