empanel

Etymology

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

verb

  1. Alternative spelling 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

noun

  1. (law) A list of jurors; a panel.

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