venire
- n (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
- Another: a population-sampling system designed to prevent subjective judgments in venire drawing; panels would be selected from among those in a community who are citizens, over .
- By the judge's bench, a cotton-topped, curly-headed boy of four played about, waiting to draw the names of venire-men for the jury from a box, a duty assigned to a young child by .
- Last month, however, a new jury commission revised the venire and added 100 Negroes to the petit jury list.