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Bandar `rhesus monkey' and bondar `palm civet,' for example, both derive from bada or badar `monkey,' while baniya `merchant' is the Hindi antecedent of both banyan `tree' and bunnia `member of a merchant caste.
(The British practice using a politically correct plural pronoun of reference for a singular antecedent is followed, explaining their job in the last example; the awkwardness could have been spared by a change to directors .)
antecedent, anterior, foregoing, former, past, precedent, previous, prior
So, whereas for dinkum , for instance, a sense history can be established that fits chronologically with a verifiable regional antecedent, for pommy there is no such answer.
[ 28 29 ] Put more generally, we would suggest that the degree of confidence appropriate for a clinically tested claim is a function of both the strength of the clinical result and the claim's antecedent biological plausibility.