α. 1600s 1900s– empanelled, 1700s empannelled, 1900s– empaneled.
β. 1600s 1900s– impanelled, 1700s impannell'd, 1800s impaneled.
empanelledadj.
/ɪmˈpanld/, /ɛmˈpanld/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpæn(ə)ld/, /ɛmˈpæn(ə)ld/ Esp. of a jury or juror: that has been empanelled.
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1603 A. Willet Antilogie to Apologicall Epist. v. 70 I take exception against two of this empanelled enquest.
1627 R. Bernard Isle of Man (ed. 4) sig. P3v That there are twelue wayes to confute Papistrie; set out by the impanelled Iurie against it.
1763 C. Churchill Rosciad in Poems I. 8 Twelve sage impannell'd Matrons.
1793 Duty of Citizens in Present Crisis v. 47 Almost to have reduced an empannelled jury to the mere skeleton of abject obedience to the expounder of the law.
1899 Southeastern Reporter 31 592/2 While the impaneled jurors are made absolutely and exclusively judges of the facts in the case, they are, in this sense only, judges of the law.
1956 B. Fitzpatrick Austral. Commonw. x. 146 At a criminal trial the Judge's associate exhorts the empanelled jury, reminding them [etc.].
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) 229 Of the thirty not executed, twenty-six were found ‘not guilty’ by the empaneled juries.
2012 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 5 May 3 Empanelled jurors only are required to report on Tuesday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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