Fo-rên'sic or Fo-rên'sic-al, a.

a. [Lat. forensis, from forum, a public place, market-place, where courts of justice were held, hence a court.] Belonging to courts of judicature or public discussion and debate; used in courts or legal proceedings, or in public discussions; appropriate to an argument; argumentative; as, a forensic term; forensic eloquence or disputes.

They disdain all forensical motives to it, and love virtue only for virtue's sake. Berkeley.

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