TYMPANY

Etymology

Noun

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

The sound made by beating a drum.

(medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).

Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

Source: Wiktionary

Tym"pa*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. Tympanites.]

1. (Med.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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