A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1560-1688
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Pannell, v. P.p. pan(n)el(l)it, pannal(l)it, -ed, pannilett; panneld, -elt, -ald, -old. [f. Pannel(l n.3? Cf. late ME. (1451) and e.m.E. panell to empanel a jury.]
To bring (an accused person) to trial, to try (before a criminal court); to indict, to arraign or accuse formally. Chiefly in the passive.The pairtie pannellit, = Pannel(l n.3 2.passive (1) 1560 Digest Justiciary Proc. C. 8.
Procurator for certaine men panneld 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 567.
That the cuntre men arreistit to this present justice air may … certanelie knaw at quhat day to be pannellit 1589 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 189.
Receaving fra ilk persone pannellit within the tolbuith befoir the schiref 1594 Misc. Spald. C. II. 122.
Quhilk persones pannalit as said is desyrit to be tryet … and the judge causit instantlie reid the dittay … to ather of them 1603 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 47.
The said day George Turing … was pannallit & accusit for certane crymes 1615 Criminal Trials III. 331.
Ogilbie the Jesuit … wes arraigned and pannalled before the proveist [etc.] 1621 Inverness Rec. II. 157.
Pannalit 1628 Chron. Perth 31.
Panellit 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 328.
Pannelled a1633 Hope Major Pract. II. 166.
Pannilett 1634 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 31 July.
Bein pannelit and accusit vpoun sundrie poyntis of dittayis of thiff a1652 Dickson Psalms II. 367. 1652 Nullity of the Pretended Assembly 10.
They were panold and condemned at Lithgow 1655 Dumbarton B. Rec. 69.
He was panelled divers times 1664 Nicoll Diary 414.
Pannelt 1671 Lauder Notices Affairs I. 26.
Pannelled for shutting a man 1679 Thanes of Cawdor 348.
For which he is now pannald and lyeing in the irons 1684 Law Memor. (1818) ii. 1686 Lauder Observes 244.
The Earle of Stamford who was pannelled before the parliament(2) 1679 J. Somerville Mem. II. 121.
This unruely humour … brought him twice … to be pannalled for his life a1688 Wallace Orkney 98.(3) 1611 Criminal Trials III. 142.
Becaus gifand … that the pairtie pannellit had maid ane leising 1629 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 5 Nov.active 1685 Skene Survey 229.
To pannell them for life without a just causefig. 1635 Dickson Wr. 138.
Thou hast never pannelled thyself before God's tribunal for sin
