Sū'per-ĕr'o-gāte, v. i.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SUPEREROGATED; p. pr. & vb. n. SUPEREROGATING.] [Lat. supererogare, supererogatum, to spend or pay out over and above, from super, over, above, and erogare, to expend or pay out money from the public treasury after asking the consent of the people. See EROGATE.] To do more than duty requires; to atone for some deficiency in another by means of a surplus action or quality. [Rare.]

The fervency of one man in prayer can not supererogate for the coldness of another. Milton.