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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