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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

tympanizare

to beat a drum, Gr.

τυμπανίζειν

To drum.

[R.]

Coles.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Tympanized

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Tympanizing

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.

[Obs.]

“Tympanized, as other saints of God were.”

Oley.

Verb.

To act the part of a drummer.

Verb.

To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.