Definition of "empanel"

empanel

/ɪmˈpænəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present empanels, present participle (UK) empanelling or (US) empaneling, simple past and past participle (UK) empanelled or (US) empaneled
1. Alternative spelling of impanel
  Quotations
  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
noun
plural empanels
1. (law) A list of jurors; a panel.
  Quotations
  The Maior […] began to call the empanels.
  1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809,