FromAnglo-Normanempaneller.
impanel (third-person singular simple presentimpanels,present participle(UK)impanellingor(US)impaneling,simple past and past participle(UK)impanelledor(US)impaneled)
- Toenrol (jurors), e.g. from ajury pool; toregister (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
1596,Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:Therefore a Jurie wasimpaneld streight / T'enquire of them, whether by force, or sleight, / Or their owne guilt, they were away conveyd?
1837,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Request Refused”, inEthel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page295:...placed him under the decent and disagreeable necessity of returning at once, before a bet was decided, whether his own cook, or that of Lord Montagle's, would prepare a single dish to the greatest perfection. The jury of taste had beenimpanelled, and here was he summoned away ten minutes before the dishes came up.
1968,Charles Portis,True Grit:In the courtroom itself they wereempaneling a jury.