impanel

present singular third person impanels · US participle present impaneling · UK participle present impanelling · US participle past impaneled · US past impaneled · UK participle past impanelled · UK past impanelled · alternative empanel · alternative empannel · alternative impannel

1. To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.

   In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.

   1968, Charles Portis, True Grit

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   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

   1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 46”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   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[…].

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   ...placed him under the decent and disagreeable necessity of returning at once, before a bet was decided, whether his own cook, or that of Lord Montagle's, would prepare a single dish to the greatest perfection. The jury of taste had been impanelled, and here was he summoned away ten minutes before the dishes came up.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Request Refused”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 295