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Rally   /rˈæli/   Listen
Rally

noun
(past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)
1.
A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.  Synonym: mass meeting.
2.
The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort.  Synonym: rallying.  "He feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack"
3.
A marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness.
4.
An automobile race run over public roads.
5.
(sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.  Synonym: exchange.
verb
(past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)
1.
Gather.  Synonyms: beat up, drum up.
2.
Call to arms; of military personnel.  Synonyms: call up, mobilise, mobilize.
3.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, summon.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"
4.
Return to a former condition.  Synonym: rebound.  "The stock market rallied"
5.
Harass with persistent criticism or carping.  Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit.  "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"



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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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