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supererogate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUPEREROGATE

v.i.[L. super and erogatio, erogo.] To do more than duty requires. Aristotle's followers have supererogated in observance. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUPEREROGATE

Su `per *er "o *gate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Supererogated; p. pr. & vb. n.Supererogating.] Etym: [L. supererogatus, p.p. of supererogare to spend or pay out over and above; super over, above + erogare to expend or pay out money from the public treasury after asking the consent of the people. See Super-, and Erogate, Rogation. ]

 

Defn: To do more than duty requires; to perform works of supererogation; to atone (for a dificiency in another ) by means of a surplus action or quality. The fervency of one man in prayer can not supererogate for the coldness of another. Milton.