different between supererogate vs supererogatory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin supererogare. See supererogation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?p???????e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sup????????e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

supererogate (comparative more supererogate, superlative most supererogate)

1. (rare) Supererogatory.

Verb

supererogate (third-person singular simple present supererogates, present participle supererogating, simple past and past participle supererogated)

1. (intransitive, theology, Catholicism) To do more than God commands.
   • The Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter XVI, article iv:

     They who, in their obedience, attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, […]

2. (intransitive, obsolete, with for) To make up with excess for the lack prepositioned by for.
3. (intransitive, obsolete, with of, with) To supererogate (in any sense) in the service of the prepositional argument.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To give that earned through supererogation to another.
5. (transitive, obsolete, rare) As in other senses but taking as an object the excess deeds or works.
6. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To deserve or more than deserve.
7. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay or expend extra.

Related terms

• supererogation
• supererogatorily
• supererogatory

References

• “supererogate”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Latin

Verb

super?rog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of super?rog?

English

Etymology

From Latin super?rog?t?rius (“supererogatory”), from super?rog?ti? (“payment in addition”), from super?rog? (“pay out over and above”), from super (“above”) + ?rog? (“pay out, expend”); from ex (“out of, from”) + rog? (“ask; request”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?p????????t??i/

Adjective

supererogatory (comparative more supererogatory, superlative most supererogatory)

1. Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism
   • 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.

     They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.

   • 2002,David Heyd: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

     It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.

Derived terms

• supererogatorily

Related terms

• supererogate
• supererogation

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