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Rallying   /rˈæliɪŋ/   Listen
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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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"Rallying" Quotes from Famous Books



... So he is now quite off my hands. I left the company early to-night, at Lord Treasurer's; but the Secretary followed me, to desire I would go with him to W—. Mr. Lewis's man came in before I could finish that word beginning with a W, which ought to be Windsor, and brought me a very handsome rallying letter from Dr. Arbuthnot, to tell me he had, in compliance to me, given up his brother's pretensions in favour of Bernage, this very morning; that the Queen had spoken to Mr. Granville to make the company ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... all were in a pother, Rushed to the door and tumbled o'er each other, But rallying soon with all their force again, In bright array ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... whole fortune at the gaming-table. Before thirty he was reduced to distress, even in the common affairs of life. He could not pay the chairmen who carried him to the House. He was known to borrow money from the waiters at Brookes's, which was the rallying-point of the Opposition. There the night was spent in whist, faro, suppers, and political consultations. Dissolute as he was, there was a kindness, a generosity of disposition that made his influence over man ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... he gasped, rallying his courage with an effort of the will. "You are talking nonsense. This is a respectable hotel; it isn't a den of thieves. You are trying to frighten me out of the money with your lies and your lawyer's tricks, ...
— The Exiles and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... encounter the new reinforcement; but speeding across the plain, was soon seen rallying his own scattered cavalry, and pouring them down, in one general body, upon the scanty remnant of ...
— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book II. • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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