Forms: α. 5 empanelle, 6–8 enpanel, 6–9 empannell, 6– empanel. β. 6–8 impannell, 6–9 impannel, 6– impanel. [a. AF. empanelle-r, f. en- (see EN-) + panel (see PANEL).]
trans. To enter (the names of a jury) on a panel or official list; to enrol or constitute (a body of jurors). Hence Empanelled ppl. a.
[1383. Act 7 Rich. II., c. 7. Le meschief qavient as diverses gentz du roialme queux sont empanellez & retournez devant les Justices.]
α. 1487. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 404. The seid seriaunt empanelle no man to be in gret inquest.
1548. Cranmer, Catech., 59. It is not nowe necessarie to empanel a quest.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xiii. § 71. The King … sent … certaine Londoners … to be there empanelled for Quests of Inquirie.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Vertue of Tayle, Wks. II. 128/1.
| A Iury here of Anagrams, you see, | |
| Of Serieants and of Iailes empanneld be. |
17[?]. Burke, Libel Bill, Wks. 1812, X. 134 (R.). Jurors duly empannelled and sworn.
1876. Green, Short Hist., ii. 82. A jury empanelled in each hundred.
β. 1514. Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 89 b. Persons impanellyd by the … justices.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., xlvi. To side this title is impannelled A quest of thoughts, all tennants to the heart.
1761. Churchill, Rosciad, Poems (1763), I. 8. Twelve sage impannell’d Matrons.
1788. Burns, Let. P. Hill, 1 Oct. Were I impannelled one of the author’s jury.
1868. Milman, St. Paul’s, vii. 137. A jury was … impannelled to ascertain boundaries.
