tympanize

English

Etymology

From tympan +‎ -ize.

Verb

tympanize (third-person singular simple present tympanizes, present participle tympanizing, simple past and past participle tympanized)

(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.
- c. 1613–1618 (first performance), Thomas Goffe, The Tragedy of Orestes, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Richard Meighen, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene ii, signature F2, verso:
  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; […]
- 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.
(obsolete, intransitive) To drum.
- 1655, Richard Younge, A Christian Library […] :
  prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.

References

“tympanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.