| 释义 |
▪ I. cried, ppl. a.|kraɪd|
[f. cry v. + -ed.]
Proclaimed by crying or loud calling, announced.
Chiefly in cried fair (Sc.), a fair proclaimed by public announcement; cried up, extolled: the opposite of cried down or decried.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxii. 213 A cried-up Beauty makes more for her own praise then her husbands profit. a1679Earl of Orrery Tryphon, Epilogue, A cry'd-down play. 1813G. Robertson Agric. Surv. Kincard. xvi. 407 Drumlithie Michael fair for cattle..followed..by what is called a Cried fair, so distinguished, by being audibly proclaimed at this. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VII. 85 Sir Walter's house was in his own phrase ‘like a cried fair’ during several weeks after the King's departure. 1886F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 228 Another of these much-cried-up spires.
▪ II. cried
created: see cree v.1 |