impanel (impanels, present participle impanelling; past and past participle impanelled)

1. To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war:

     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

   • 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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     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 […].

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.