- Tympanize
- Tympanize \Tym"pa*nize\, v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. ?.] To drum. [R.] --Coles. [1913 Webster]
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Tympanize — 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.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Tympanized — Tympanize 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tympanizing — Tympanize 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tympaniser — [ tɛ̃panize ] v. tr. <conjug. : 1> • XVI e; du lat. tympanizare, gr. tumpanizein « tambouriner » 1 ♦ Vx Critiquer, ridiculiser publiquement (qqn). 2 ♦ Rebattre les oreilles de (qqn). « De cette maxime, elle tympanise ses proches » (Le Point … Encyclopédie Universelle
