a. Obs. [f. L forens-is (see FORENSIC) + -AL.] = FORENSIC.
1660. H. More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, V. xii. 164. All which, as Grotius interprets the place in a Forensal sense, is of a very large extension, and acknowledged as well by Turk as Christian.
1670. in Blount, Glossogr.
1676–1732. in Coles.
