foren-, fore- +

1. To confirm; to assure.
2. An old law, to assess or to reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.

From Old French aforer, afeurer, "to tax, appraise, assess", from Latin ad- plus forum, "market, court of justice"; in Late Latin also meaning "price".

1. To convert (bare or cultivated land) into forest, originally for the purpose of providing hunting grounds.
2. To convert (open land) into a forest by planting trees or their seeds.

1. A system of land use in which harvestable trees or shrubs are grown among or around crops or on pasture land, as a means of preserving or enhancing the productivity of the land.
2. Agriculture in which there is integrated management of trees or shrubs along with conventional crops or livestock.
3. In modern applications, it now refers to the deliberate growing of woody perennials on the same unit of land as agricultural crops or animals.

A new name for an old set of practices, involves the deliberate growing of woody perennials on the same unit of land as agricultural crops or animals, either in some form of special mixture or in temporal sequence.

There is a significant interaction (ecological and economical) between woody and nonwoody components of the system. Agroforesty systems are grouped as agrosilvicultural (crops and trees), silvopastoral (trees and pasture/animals), or agrosilvopastoral (crops, trees, and pasture/animals).

To convert into, or add to, a forest.

1. To remove the trees from an area of land.
2. To divest or clear a section of land of forests or trees.

1. To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges.
2. From English law, to reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

By charter 9, Henry III; many forests were disafforested.

The same as to deforest; that is, a British term meaning to reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges.

1. From Latin foras, "outside"; Late Latin foranus, "on the outside"; Old French forain, Middle English foreine.
2. Located away from one's native country: on business in a foreign city.
3. Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered: a foreign custom.
4. Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic: foreign trade.
5. Situated in an abnormal or improper place in the body and typically introduced from outside: a foreign object in the eye.
6. Not natural; alien: Jealousy is foreign to her nature.
7. Subject to the jurisdiction of another political unit.

1. One who is from a foreign country or place.
2. Someone who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
3. A person born in a foreign country; one from abroad or of another nation; an alien.
4. Something produced or brought from abroad; especially, a foreign vessel.
5. Someone of another county, parish, etc.; a stranger, an outsider. In early use espcially someone who was not a member of any particular guild, a non-freeman.

1. The imitation of what is foreign.
2. An idiom, phrase, or term of foreign origin.

1. To grow or become foreign; to take after, or display a resemblance to, foreign typeS.
2. To render foreign; to refashion after foreign models; to give a foreign air to.

Dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings as, for example, in forensic anthropology, forensic dentistry, forensic experts, forensic medicine (legal medicine), forensic pathology, forensic science, etc.

Etymology: the term forensic comes from the Latin word forensis which refers to a "forum".

In ancient Rome the forum was a market place where people gathered, not just to buy things, but also to conduct all kinds of business, including that of public affairs.

The meaning of forensic later came to be restricted to the courts of law. The word entered English usage in 1659.

The specialty area of accounting that describes engagements which result from actual or anticipated disputes or litigation.

1. The branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
2. The application of physical anthropology in a legal setting, usually for the recovery and identification of skeletal human remains.

Forensic anthropology includes the identification of skeletal, decomposed, or unidentified human remains.

Forensic anthropologists may team up with forensic pathologists, forensic dentists, and homicide detectives to identify dead people and the time and manner of their deaths.

Forensic anthropology may also help determine the age, sex, stature, and unique features of the deceased from their remains. DNA forensics, blood groups, and fingerprints are all tools of the trade in forensic anthropology.

The study and interpretation of economic damage evidence to include present day calculations of lost earnings and benefits, the lost value of a business, lost business profits, lost value of household service, replacement labor costs, and future medical-care costs.