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tympanized

tympanized is the simple past and past participle of tympanize.

Meaning of tympanize

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.
    • 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; […]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
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To drum.
    • prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker.1655, Richard Younge, A Christian Library […]

Questions about tympanized

What is tympanized the simple past and past participle of?
Tympanized is the simple past and past participle of tympanize.

Words near tympanized in the dictionary

  1. tympanists
  2. tympanites
  3. tympanitic
  4. tympanitis
  5. tympanize
  6. tympanized
  7. tympanizes
  8. tympanizing
  9. tympano
  10. tympano-
  11. tympanocenteses

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