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tympany

tympany


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tympany  \Tym"pa*ny\,  n.  [Gr.  ?,  fr  ?  a  kettledrum.  See 
  {Tympanites}.] 
  1.  (Med.)  A  flatulent  distention  of  the  belly;  tympanites. 
  --Fuller. 
 
  2.  Hence  inflation;  conceit;  bombast;  turgidness.  ``Thine  's 
  a  tympany  of  sense.''  --Dryden. 
 
  A  plethoric  a  tautologic  tympany  of  sentence.  --De 
  Quincey.