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." --Oley.
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