Tym"pa*nize (?), v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. .]
To drum.
[R.]
Coles.
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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."
Oley.
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