tympany noun. ['tɪmpǝni] LME.
[Greek tumpanias, from tumpanon TYMPANUM.]
1. = TYMPANUM 4. Long arch. LME.

2. a. Medicine & (now chiefly) Veterinary Medicine. = TYMPANITES. Formerly with the. E16.
b. transf. Any swelling or rounded form, esp. that of the abdomen in pregnancy. L16-E18.

3. fig. A condition of being inflated with pride, conceit, etc.; an excess of pride etc.; inflated style, bombast. Now rare or obsolete. L16.

4. Architecture. = TYMPANUM 3b. Scot. M18.

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