impanel
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman empaneller.
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)
- 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?
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- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war:
Translations
to enrol jurors