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