tympanyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɪmpəni/
• ハイフネーション: tym‧pa‧ny
• 異形同音異義語: timpani, tympani

名詞

tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)

1. The sound made by beating a drum.
   • 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC, page 39:

     [T]he vvoman ſet before the Sanctuary vvith her head uncover'd, vvas adjur'd by the Prieſt to ſvvear vvhether ſhe vvas fals or no; and conſtrain'd to drink that bitter vvater vvith an undoubted curſe of rottenneſſe, and tympany to follovv, unleſſe ſhe vvere innocent.

2. (medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe:

     Thine's a tympany of sense.

   • 1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence