tympanize
verbEtymology From tympan + -ize.
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Obsolete 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.
- 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; […]c. 1613–1618 (first performance), Thomas Goffe, The Tragedy of Orestes, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Richard Meighen, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene ii, signature F2, verso:
- 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.
2
Obsolete To drum.
- prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.1655, Richard Younge, A Christian Library […] :