Impanel
Alternative forms
Origin
From Anglo-Norman empaneller.
Full definition of impanel
Verb
- To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
- 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? - 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.16: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 ...
- End of XVI cent., , by Shakespeare: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