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From Anglo-Norman empaneller.

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

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

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

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

   • 1837, L E L, “A Request Refused”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 295:

     ...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.

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.

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