tympany
English
Etymology
Coined based on Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon).
Noun
tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)
- The sound made by beating a drum.
- (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
- Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
- John Dryden
- Thine's a tympany of sense.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)
- John Dryden
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