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impanel

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

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
    • Therefore a Jurie was impaneld streight / T'enquire of them, whether by force, or sleight, / Or their owne guilt, they were away conveyd?1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of impanel

third-person singular presentimpanels
present participle USimpaneling
present participle UKimpanelling
past participle USimpaneled
past USimpaneled
past participle UKimpanelled
past UKimpanelled
alternative formempanel
alternative formempannel
alternative formimpannel

Origin of impanel

From Anglo-Norman empaneller.

Words formed from impanel

Questions about impanel

What does impanel mean?
Impanel means to enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
What part of speech is impanel?
Impanel is a verb.
What is the past tense of impanel?
The past tense of impanel is impaneled.

Words near impanel in the dictionary

  1. impanation
  2. impanator
  3. impanators
  4. impane
  5. impaned
  6. impanel
  7. impaneled
  8. impaneling
  9. impanelled
  10. impanelling
  11. impanelment

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