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empanel en · NOUN

The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.

A list of jurors; a panel.
- When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by the ringing of Bow bell, thought to aſſemble together a great multitude of their minde and opinion, and ſo by force and might to take from the kepers all ſuch priſoners, as were before apprehended, for the late committed robbery and riot, as they were goyng to their triall or arreignment. 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Sixt”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 630:

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empanels	Number=Plur		lexicographic

The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of impanel.
alt of impanel
- 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

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empaneling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	US	lexicographic
empanelled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	UK	lexicographic
empanelled	Tense=Past	UK	lexicographic
empanelling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	UK	lexicographic
empanels	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
empaneled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	US	lexicographic
empaneled	Tense=Past	US	lexicographic