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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. [bd]Thine 's a tympany of sense.[b8] --Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. --De Quincey. | |
