Tym"pa*ny (?), n. [Gr. , fr. a kettledrum. See Tympanites.]
1. Med.
A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
Fuller.
2.
Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
"Thine 's a
tympany of sense."
Dryden.
A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence.
De Quincey.
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