ppl. a. [f. CRY v. + -ED.] Proclaimed by crying or loud calling, announced.

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  Chiefly in cried fair (Sc.), a fair proclaimed by public announcement; cried up, extolled: the opposite of cried down or decried.

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1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., III. xxii. 213. A cried-up Beauty makes more for her own praise then her husbands profit.

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a. 1679.  Earl Orrery, Tryphon, Epilogue. A cry’d-down play.

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1813.  G. 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.

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1837.  Lockhart, 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.

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1886.  Mrs. Flor. Caddy, Footsteps Jeanne D’Arc, 228. Another of these much-cried-up spires.

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  Cried, created: see CREE v.1

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