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(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..
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.
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; […]
prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.
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Tympanize means (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..
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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.
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