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Rally   /rˈæli/   Listen
noun
Rally  n.  (pl. rallies)  
1.
The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
2.
A political mass meeting. (Colloq. U. S.)


Rally  n.  Good-humored raillery.


verb
Rally  v. t.  (past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.


Rally  v. t.  To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. "Honeycomb... rallies me upon a country life." "Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain, Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain."
Synonyms: To banter; ridicule; satirize; deride; mock.


Rally  v. i.  
1.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. "The Grecians rally, and their powers unite." "Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world."
2.
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
3.
To recover strength after a decline in prices; said of the market, stocks, etc.


Rally  v. i.  To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.





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"Rally" Quotes from Famous Books



... my young cock shaver," said that gentleman; "an' what old Job Brown sez, why I guess he'll stick to! You rec'lect what I told you 'bout wages, hey? We whalin' men don't gen'rally give a fixed sum, as we go shares in the vally o' the venture; but, if yer brother haar likes it better, I'll give you twenty dollars a month, besides yer keep ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... any one; or, rather, it would not be well then, but the evil would not be so manifest. You cannot do your duty in the diocese if you continue to sit there doing nothing, with your head upon your hands. Why do you not rally, and get to your work like ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... themselves, must now be restored to office, and a tenfold responsibility laid upon them. For what is their office? Nothing less than to move the vast inertia of the soul, and place it, and keep it where the spiritual forces will act upon it. It is to rally the forces of the will, and keep the surface of the mirror bright and ever in position. It is to uncover the face which is to look at Christ, and draw down the veil when unhallowed sights ...
— Addresses • Henry Drummond
... and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various
... out and talk to that outer crowd. He would make clear to them their awful sin in killing Jesus, the spotless purity and rightness of the absent Jesus, and the terrific fact that the prince of the world whom they rally to so faithfully is actually judged, doomed and damned. Then He adds, "now in a little bit I'll be gone from you. Then a little later, I'll be ...
— Quiet Talks on John's Gospel • S. D. Gordon


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