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forensick

forensick is the obsolete form of forensic.

Meaning of forensic

Adjective

forensic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
    • forensic analysis; forensic examination; forensic evidence; forensic investigation; forensic pathologist
  2. (dated) Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law; suitable or adapted to legal argumentation.
    • Varus trusted implicitly […] to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.1851, Edward Shepherd Creasy, “Chapter V”, in The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
  3. (informal) Precise, thorough, or highly meticulous, by analogy with a scientific legal investigation.
    • A forensic account of history
  4. Relating to forms of disability associated with criminal risk.
    • a forensic learning disability
  5. (archaic) Relating to, or used in, debate or argument.
    Synonyms:
    rhetorical

Questions about forensick

What is forensick the obsolete form of?
Forensick is the obsolete form of forensic.

Words near forensick in the dictionary

  1. forensicated
  2. forensicates
  3. forensicating
  4. forensicist
  5. forensicists
  6. forensick
  7. forensics
  8. forensive
  9. foreordain
  10. foreordained
  11. foreordainer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forensick (page history and authors); forensic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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