cry up

cry up (third-person singular simple present cries up, present participle crying up, simple past and past participle cried up)

1. To extol, praise.
   • 1730, Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation:

     Though we cry up the great advantage we have above all other animals, in being capable of religion, yet those animals, we despise for want of it, herd most socially together; except such carnivorous creatures which necessity separates.

   • 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar:

     Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.