Tympanizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]