v. Obs. Also 6–7 tim-. [ad. Gr. τυμπανίζειν to beat a drum, f. τύμπανον TYMPANUM; or late L. tympanizāre (in med.L. in sense 1 b below); cf. F. tympaniser (16th c.), to proclaim or decry loudly, Pg. tympanisar (med.).]
1. trans. To affect with a tympany (lit. or fig.); to distend (the abdomen, etc.) with gas; to inflate, puff up (with pride, etc.).
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 118. The therd sonne of Pride is Atheisme, which is when a man is so timpaniz’d with prosperity,… that he forgets he had a Maker.
1623. Cockeram, II. Swolne with watrish humors, tympaniz’d.
1647. C. Harvey, Schola Cordis, XII. vi. My windy thoughts with pride are tympaniz’d.
1679. J. Goodman, Penit. Pard., I. iv. (1713), 114. To have that element [water] forced down a man’s throat till all the vessels of his body are stretched and tympanized.
b. intr. To be affected with a tympany; to swell (lit. and fig.).
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 157. Our Ladies … haue so many prophylactica to keepe their bellies from tympanizing.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., VI. 352. Pride in their hearts doth swell and tympanise.
2. intr. To beat or play on a drum, rare–0.
1623. Cockeram, II. To beate a Drum, tympanize.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tympanize, to play on a Drum, Taber or Tymbrel.
3. trans. To stretch on the rack.
A former interpretation of τυμπανἰζειν in Heb. xi. 35 (prob. rather = to beat with a drum-stick cf. TYMPANISM 1).
1647. Trapp, Comm. Heb. xi. 35. Έτυμπανίσθησαν…. They were tympanized, distended, stretched upon the rack as a sheeps-pelt is upon a drum-head.
1652. Oley, Life G. Herbert, in Rem., A xj b. To be sawn asunder as Esay, stoned as Jeremy, made a Drum, or Tympanised, as other Saints of God were.
Hence † Tympanizing ppl. a.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, i. 7. Swolne with timpanizing pride.
