Meaning of tympanize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To drum.
   intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.”

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