forensicallyadv.
/fəˈrɛnzᵻkli/, /fəˈrɛnsᵻkli/, U.S. /fəˈrɛnzək(ə)li/, /fəˈrɛnsək(ə)li/ 1. In terms of law or legal proceedings; in the manner of proceedings in a court of law. Now only in legal use.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [adverb]
forensically1566
1566 R. Horne Answeare M. J. Fekenham f. 108 Iudicially sitting in iudgement, to enquire of mens manners, and forinsically to punishe or correct, and to decide the controuersies amongest the people.
1646 G. Gillespie Aaron's Rod III. iii. v. sig. e4 They shall prove the fact before the Church forensically.
1718 Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's Answer to Mr. Syles 57 Judging, with St. Paul and the Bishop, signifies forensically, to give Sentence Authoritatively.
1845 J. B. Mozley Laud in Ess. (1878) I. 218 Laud was put into the humiliating position of having to stand up and forensically guard every little thing he had done.
1907 B. B. James Women of Engl. xiv. 344 The question of woman's sphere was greatly agitated, and was academically and forensically debated pro and con.
2015 Canberra Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. a1 The approach taken in this case appears to reflect an approach..where a plaintiff was at liberty to meander slowly towards a forensically advantageous position at a time convenient to the plaintiff's solicitors.
2. In terms of forensic medicine or science; by means of forensic science.
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1864 G. W. Balfour tr. J. L. Casper Handbk. Pract. Forensic Med. III. 351 Those [signs of pregnancy] that are subjective and those that may remain from a previous pregnancy are of no diagnostic value forensically [Ger. keinen forensisch-diagnostichen Werth].
1901 Jrnl. Hygiene 1 375 The reactions produced by specific haemolysins and agglutinins are of but little value forensically.
1985 C. J. Polson et al. Essentials Forensic Med. (ed. 4) ii. 41 There was no forensically practicable way of detecting this sort of mistake [sc. mistaken eye-witness identification].
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Sept. (Central ed.) b5/1 Computer equipment was seized in the raid and will be forensically examined.
3. In a way that shows great attention to detail; meticulously, precisely.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb]
rightlyeOE
righteOE
evenOE
evenlya1225
redlyc1275
justicelya1375
justilya1375
justlya1375
redilya1375
trulya1375
properlya1382
precisec1392
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truec1392
straitlya1395
leala1400
arightc1405
by linec1420
justlyc1425
featlya1450
rule-righta1450
to the letter?1495
exquisitely1526
evenliklya1530
very1530
absolutely1538
jump1539
just1568
accurately1581
punctually1581
jumplya1586
arights1596
just so1601
plumb1601
compassly1606
nicelya1616
squarely1626
justa1631
adequately1632
mathematicallya1638
critically1655
exquisitively1660
just1665
pointedly1667
faithfully1690
correctlya1704
jus1801
jest1815
jes1851
neat1875
cleanly1883
on the nose1883
smack-dab1892
spot on1920
forensically1974
1974 Sunday Tel. 31 Mar. 14/3 Miss Manning displays..a similar gift for forensically-precise characterisations.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Oct. k16 Sawatsky's biography..is a forensically detailed account, three years in the writing.
2020 J. Ashton Practising Public Health v. 101 These events have been forensically described by Randy Shilts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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