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noun Law.
1.
(used with a plural verb) persons chosen to serve on the jury when the original panel is insufficiently large: originally selected from among those present in court.
2.
(used with a singular verb) the order or writ summoning such jurors.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin tālēs (dē circumstantibus) such (of the bystanders)
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin tālēs (dē circumstantibus) such (of the bystanders)
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noun
1.
a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
2.
a literary composition having the form of such a narrative.
3.
a falsehood; lie.
4.
a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue.
5.
EXPANDthe full number or amount.
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Word Origin & History
tale
O.E. talu "story, tale, the action of telling," from P.Gmc. *talo (cf. Du. taal "speech, language"), from PIE base *del- "to recount, count." The secondary Eng. sense of "number, numerical reckoning" (c.1200) probably was the primary one in Gmc., cf. teller (see tell) and
EXPAND O.Fris. tale, M.Du. tal "number," O.S. tala "number," O.H.G. zala, Ger. Zahl "number." The ground sense of the Mod.Eng. word in its main meaning, then, might have been "an account of things in their due order." Related to talk and tell. Meaning "things divulged that were given secretly, gossip" is from c.1350; first record of talebearer "tattletale" is 1478.
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