Tym·pa·nize v. i. To drum. [R.]
Tym·pa·nize, v. t. [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.”
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