empanel
English
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpænəl/
Verb
empanel (third-person singular simple present empanels, present participle (UK) empanelling or (US) empaneling, simple past and past participle (UK) empanelled or (US) empaneled)
- Alternative spelling of impanel
- 2021, Michael Hiltzik, Column: The idea of expanding the Supreme Court to blunt its right-wing bias gains traction, in: The Los Angeles Times, December 17 2021
- President Biden lent validity to the debate, if not to the idea [of expanding the Supreme Court] itself, by empaneling a commission to examine court expansion and other possible reforms such as term limits for justices.
- 2021, Michael Hiltzik, Column: The idea of expanding the Supreme Court to blunt its right-wing bias gains traction, in: The Los Angeles Times, December 17 2021
Noun
empanel (plural empanels)
- (law) A list of jurors; a panel.
- 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809, →OCLC:
- The Maior […] began to call the empanels.
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