Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Archaic Inflated manner or style; bombast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swelling out or inflation; an inflated or puffed-up mass or condition; hence, turgidity; bombast; conceit.
- noun In pathology, an inflated or distended condition of the abdomen or peritoneum; tympanites.
- To swell or puff up; inflate; dilate; distend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.
- noun Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sound made bybeating adrum . - noun medicine
Tympanites (distention of the abdomen). - noun
Inflation ;conceit ;bombast ;turgidness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tapping the knuckles of my left hand lightly with my right is like batting at a balloon, and I can hear the mellow tympany of the gas that is inside.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Tapping the knuckles of my left hand lightly with my right is like batting at a balloon, and I can hear the mellow tympany of the gas that is inside.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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They had permission to turn over the late Sir Caspar's drum, though the place is more like an entire tympany section.
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Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable:
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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Only wise, only rich, only fortunate, valorous, and fair, puffed up with this tympany of self-conceit; [1918] as that proud Pharisee, they are not (as they suppose) like other men, of a purer and more precious metal: [1919] Soli rei gerendi sunt efficaces, which that wise Periander held of such: [1920] meditantur omne qui prius negotium, &c.
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Some are like woodwinds, some are like strings, some are like brass instruments, some are like tympany, etc. etc.
friends symphony, resolution asakiyume 2006
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S — — was with child when she was last in England, and pretended a tympany, and saw everybody; then disappeared for three weeks, her tympany was gone, and she looked like a ghost, etc. No wonder she married when she was so ill at containing.
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This practice of swathing was resorted to on account of the tympany [48] which followed these spasmodic ravings; but the bystanders frequently relieved patients in a less artificial manner, _by thumping and trampling upon the parts affected_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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For the rest, the blows were never administered except during the torments of convulsion; and at that time the tympany
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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Griselda among herbs, may be given with admirable effect in pottage, as a domestic aperient, "loosening the belly, helping the jaundice, and dispersing the tympany."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
qms commented on the word tympany
The braggart cavorts like a chimpanzee,
He chatters and flaunts his tympany.
Compare then the sage,
Baton raised on stage,
Though silent conducting a symphony.
February 7, 2014