tympanyn.

/ˈtɪmpəni/

Forms: Also 1500s tympanye, 1500s–1600s tympanie, timpanie, timpany.

Etymology: < medieval Latin tympanias, < Greek τυμπανίας , < τύμπανον tympanum n.

a. = tympanites n.; also sometimes used vaguely for a morbid swelling or tumour of any kind. Common from 16th to 18th centuries (with a, the, or without article).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of abdomen or diaphragm > [noun] > distension

tympanites1398

tympany1528

tympan1530

wind-dropsy1607

meteorismus1791

tympanitis1797

meteorism1843

meteorization1857

tympanicity1899

(a)

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. C iij b A tympany..is ingendred..by coldenes of the stomake, and lyuer, not sufferyng mans drynke or meate to be conuerted in to good humours, but tourneth them in to ventosities.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxxxiiii A tympany..doth make ones bely to swell lyke a taber.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1765/1 Some other sayd that shee was deceiued by a Timpany [1587 timpanie]..whereby shee thoughte shee was with childe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mole, a Timpanie, or Moone-calfe; a shapelesse lump of flesh, or hard swelling, in the wombe.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth Introd. 10 Queene Mary..left her life..of a six moneths Feuer, and a Tympany.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 She cured her of Three Tympanies, but the Fourth carry'd her off.

1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery II. 82 She was grown very big; a circumstance she imputed to a dropsy or rather a tympany.

1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 115 Nature has no mercy,..makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.

(b)1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxxviii. sig. N.ii Yet the lyuer is drye, whether it be alchytes Iposarca, Leucoflegmancia, or the tympany.1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 100 Cummen seede..is good against the chollicke and timpanie.1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 178 It helps..the collick, tympany, and nephritick passion.1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 109 (heading) The Tympany.1844 B. G. Babington tr. J. F. C. Hecker Epidemics Middle Ages (new ed.) 88 This practice of swathing was resorted to on account of the tympany which followed these spasmodic ravings.(c)1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 Index The Diseases and Casualties this year... Tympany, 3.1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1802) III. 208 Tympany consists in an elastic tumor of the abdomen, which sounds on being struck.1881 Trans. Obstet. Soc. XXII. 135 The movements of a coil of distended intestine as in some forms of tympany.1901 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 4) i. 26 Obliteration of the liver flatness in the nipple line may be caused by excessive tympany.1923 G. H. Wooldridge Encycl. Vet. Med., Surg. & Obstetr. II. 1023/2 Tympany is..a common accompaniment of rumenitis.1970 W. H. Parker Health & Dis. Farm Animals xiv. 186 The swelling in cases of tympany is primarily on the left.

†b. transferred or allusively, esp. in reference to pregnancy. Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [noun]

pregnation?a1425

gravidation1450

pregnancyc1487

conceytatea1500

greatnessa1500

tympany1580

childbearing1612

gestation1615

ingravidation1615

gravidity1651

pregnantness1727

utero-gestation1775

baby-making1827

situation1829

enceinteship1841

tecnogonia1860

infanticipation1934

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > swelling or swollenness > a swollen thing or part

swellingOE

boil1481

tumour?1541

tympany1580

tuberosity1611

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 7^v My pursse now swelling with a timpany. I thought to search all countryes for a remedy.

1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 25 The maide fell sicke, and hir disease was thought to be a Timpany with two heeles.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. vii. 865 Sometimes the neighbour hils..tumble downe..in the plaine, thereby so amazing the fearefull Riuers, that they runne quite out of their Channels..or else stand still..and..fall into an vncouth tympanie, their bellies swelling into spacious..lakes.

1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv. ii Midwives believe that it foretells A hopefull timpany to come.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant v. i. 72 A meere Tympany..rais'd by a Cushion.

1707 S. Centlivre Platonick Lady ii. i. 18 If she has not twice slipt aside for a natural Tympany.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 127. ¶10 To Unhoop the fair Sex, and cure this fashionable Tympany that is got among them.

2. figurative. A swelling, as of pride, arrogance, self-conceit, etc., figured as a disease; a condition of being inflated or puffed up; an excess of something figured as a swelling; something big or pretentious, but empty or vain; inflated style, turgidity, bombast. Now rare or Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [noun]

bolninga1340

swellingc1386

inflation1526

tympany1581

tumour1599

typhus1643

puffiness1668

inflatedness1867

bloatednessc1875

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style

inflation1603

windinessa1613

ranting1633

tumoura1639

turgency1654

tympany1680

swell1744

turgidity1756

turgidness1757

tumidity1791

ráiméis1828

mouthiness1830

spread-eagleism1858

inflatedness1867

ampullosity1869

telegraphese1870

mouthing1876

Barnumese1889

intumescence1893

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 389 Why could your holy mother Church suffer so horrible a Tympany, and Imposthume within her owne bowels.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 387 To this the Dukes Tympanie the Commons..became Midwiues,..vntill..they had brought him a bed of a Kingdome.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 365 This Timpany, or false conception, by which spirituall power is blowne vp, and swelled with temporall.

1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxviii, in Wks. I. 776 H' has tympanies of businesse, in his face.

1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) i. ii. iii. xiv. 122 Puffed up with this Timpany of selfe-conceit.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xvii. 258 Some would cut off the flesh of the Churches necessary maintenance, under pretense to cure her of a tympanie of superfluities.

1677 E. Bury Husbandmans Compan. 214 Wealth many times swells men into a tympany, not easily cured.

1680 Earl of Roscommon tr. Horace Art of Poetry in Poems (1780) 105 Others, that affect A lofty style, swell to a tympany.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke xiv. 11 He that before their Eyes had Cured a Man of a Bodily Dropsy, attempts to Cure [them] of the Tympany of Pride.

1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 27. ¶10 What..was observ'd of Sejanus, holds true of many later Tympanies of Grandeur.

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 906 Dr. Johnson..he charges..with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 288 He was afflicted with a tympany of mind produced by metaphysics.

1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 15 It was the conceit..which turned out to be the sober truth; and our modesty..it was which turned out a windy tympany.

3. = tympan n. 1, tympanum n. 1. rare. Obsolete or archaic.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun]

tympanc825

taborc1290

taborna1340

tambour1484

drumslade1527

drum?1534

tympany1534

tympanum1675

skin1929

1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. M.v^v Prayse hym with tympany and taberat.

1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Fiiij Let them syng vnto hym with timpany and harpe.

1875 R. Browning tr. Euripides Herakles in Aristophanes' Apol. 275 By the tympanies and the thyrsos hoist Of the Bromian revel-rout.

4. Architecture. = tympan n. 5, tympanum n. 3b. Scottish.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > front or face > part of

tympany1825

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Timpan, tympany, the middle part of the front of a house, raised above the level of the rest of the wall, resembling a gable... This is also called a Tympany gavel.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as tympany gavel (gable n.¹), tympany window (sense 4); tympany-like adj.

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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [adjective]

to-bollenc1175

bolledc1375

bolnedc1380

swollenc1386

blown1483

puffed?a1500

inflate?1504

bellieda1533

bladder-puffed1549

uppuffed1573

huffling1582

swellinga1586

upblown1590

tumorous1603

windy1603

windy-headed1603

huffed1605

flown1606

huff-pufft1608

puff-pasted1610

turgid1620

turgent1621

high-blown1623

tympanous1625

bladdered1633

tympaneda1634

tumoured1635

tympanied1637

enormous1641

over-leaven1648

flatulent1658

tympany-like1658

huffy1677

tumefied1677

blubbered1699

full-blown1699

bloated1731

tympanitical1772

inflated1785

pompholygous1855

overblown1864

forblown-

1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 98 Out of a tympany-like ostentation.

1849 Glasgow Past & Present (1884) I. 106 An old house with tympany windows.

Derivatives

† tympanied adj. obsolete inflated as with a tympany, puffed up.Apparently an isolated use.

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