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English
Etymology
From tympan + -ize.
Verb
tympanize (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.
c. 1613–1618 (first performance), Thomas Goffe, The Tragedy of Orestes, , London: I B for Richard Meighen, , published 1633, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene ii, signature F2, verso:Thou haſt plaid muſique to my dolefull ſoule; / And vvhen my heart vvas tympaniz'd vvith griefe, / Thou lauedſt out ſome into thy heart from mine, / And kept it ſo from burſting; […]
- 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.
- (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
“tympanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.