Meaning of tympany | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
   countable, uncountable
2. Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
   countable, uncountable
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Thine's a tympany of sense.”

“Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence”

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