forensic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fo=ren=sic

CIDE DICTIONARY

forensic, a. [L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See Forum.].

 Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.  [1913 Webster]

Forensic medicine, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law.

forensic, n. 

 An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

forensic, adj. of or used in connection with courts of law (forensic science).

Idiom

forensic medicine the application of medical knowledge to legal problems.

Derivative

forensically adv.

Etymology

L forensis f. FORUM

ROGET THESAURUS

forensic

Lawyer

N lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, King's or Queen's counsel, K, C, Q, C, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, S, S, C, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student, learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired, banco regis.