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Forensive vs Forensic - What's the difference?

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Forensic is a related term of forensive.


Forensive is often a misspelling of forensic.


Forensive has no English definition.

As an adjective forensic is

relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

forensic

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Alternative forms

* forensick (obsolete)

Adjective

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  • Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
  • * 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
  • Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
  • (dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
  • * 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
  • It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
  • (archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
  • * 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
  • Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.

    Synonyms

    * (Related or appropriate for a court of law) legal * (Related or used in debate and argumentation) rhetorical

    Derived terms

    * forensic accounting * forensic engineering * forensic linguistics * forensic medicine * forensic science * forensically * forensics

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