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empannel

empannel is the alternative form 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

Forms of empannel

third-person singular presentempannels
present participle USempanneling
present participle UKempannelling
past participle USempanneled
past USempanneled
past participle UKempannelled
past UKempannelled

Questions about empannel

What is empannel the alternative form of?
Empannel is the alternative form of impanel.

Words near empannel in the dictionary

  1. empanelled
  2. empanelling
  3. empanelment
  4. empanelments
  5. empanels
  6. empannel
  7. empanneled
  8. empanneling
  9. empannelled
  10. empannelling
  11. empannels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empannel (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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