tympanize

verb2

1. •
   (no longer used) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.

   • Thou hast plaid musique to my dolefull soule; / And vvhen my heart vvas tympaniz'd vvith griefe, / Thou lauedst out some into thy heart from mine, / And kept it so from bursting; […] — 1613
2. •
   (no longer used) To drum.

   • prosperity does so tympanize mens souls , and intrance them from themselves ; that they forget they had a Maker. — 1655