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empanel

/ɪmˈpænəl/

empanel is the alternative spelling of impanel.

Meaning of impanel

Verb

impanel (third-person singular simple present impanels, present participle (US) impaneling or (UK) impanelling, simple past and past participle (US) impaneled or (UK) impanelled)

  1. To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
    • 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 part1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 46”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Noun

empanel (plural empanels)

  1. A list of jurors; a panel.
    • When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by...1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Sixt”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye...

Forms of empanel

Verb
third-person singular presentempanels
present participle USempaneling
present participle UKempanelling
past participle USempaneled
past USempaneled
past participle UKempanelled
past UKempanelled
Noun
pluralempanels

Origin of empanel

The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.

Questions about empanel

What does empanel mean?
Empanel means a list of jurors; a panel.
What is empanel the alternative spelling of?
Empanel is the alternative spelling of impanel.
What part of speech is empanel?
Empanel is a noun.
How do you pronounce empanel?
Empanel is pronounced /ɪmˈpænəl/.
What is the plural of empanel?
The plural of empanel is empanels.

Words near empanel in the dictionary

  1. empaling
  2. empanada
  3. empanadas
  4. empanadilla
  5. empanadillas
  6. empanel
  7. empaneled
  8. empaneling
  9. empanelled
  10. empanelling
  11. empanelment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empanel (page history and authors); impanel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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