tympanize
English
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edittympanize (third-person singular simple present tympanizes, present participle tympanizing, simple past and past participle tympanized)
- (obsolete, transitive) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
- 1807, B. Oley, "Prefatory View of Life and Virtues of the Author", in The Clergyman's Instructor by John Randolph
- Tympanized, as other saints of God were.
- 1807, B. Oley, "Prefatory View of Life and Virtues of the Author", in The Clergyman's Instructor by John Randolph
- (obsolete, intransitive) To drum.
- 1655, Richard Younge, A Christian Library […] :
- prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.
References
edit“tympanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.