English

Alternative forms

• empanel
• empannel
• impannel

Verb

impanel ‎(third-person singular simple present impanels, present participle (UK) impanelling or (US) impaneling, simple past and past participle (UK) impanelled or (US) impaneled)

1. To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war:

     To 'cide this title is impannelled / A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart; / And by their verdict is determined / The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

     Therefore a Jurie was impaneld streight / T'enquire of them, whether by force, or sleight, / Or their owne guilt, they were away conveyd?

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.16:

     We are often driven to empanell and select a jury of twelve men out of a whole countrie to determine of an acre of land […].

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.

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• maniple