Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelled or puffed out; inflated; distended; figuratively, pompous.
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Examples
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Secondly, Their plots and undertakings have generally proved tympanous and birthless; vexation and disappointment hath been the portion of the residue of their days.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The folly that was in their counsels, the amazement that was in their armies, the trembling that accompanied all their undertakings, the tympanous products of all their endeavours, do all cry out, "Digitus Dei est h ` ic."
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Such contemptible products have our tympanous mountains!
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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