tympanize

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1807, B. Oley, "Prefatory View of Life and Virtues of the Author", in The Clergyman's Instructor by John Randolph
 * Tympanized, as other saints of God were.
 * 1)  To drum.