tympanize

English

Etymology

tympan +‎ -ize

Verb

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

1. (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.
   • 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.

2. (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.