Meaning of impanel | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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”

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

“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⟳[…].”

“...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.”

“In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.”

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