a. Obs. Also 6–8 forinsecal, -sicall, (7 forensecal). [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec. adj.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 357. In forinsicall, and temporall causes.
1654. T. Warren, Unbelievers, 231. Justification is a forensical, judicial act.
1740. North, Examen, II. v. § 37. 336. Acts of the supreme Power, or (in forinsecal style) legislative Acts or Acts of Parliament.
Hence Forensically adv., in a forensic manner.
1845. Morley, Ess., Laud (1878), I. 218. Laud was put into the humiliating position of having to stand up and forensically guard every little thing he had done. Ibid. (1876), Univ. Serm., v. 102. The Church … contemplates war forensically, as a mode of settling national questions.
