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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.

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. Works of supererogation (R. C. Ch.), those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their own salvation.

Supererogatory.

Performed to an extent not enjoined, or not required, by duty or necessity; as, supererogatory services. Howell.

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing. J. Ellis.

More than ethical; above ethics. Bolingbroke.

To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others. Barrow.

Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.

Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. Drayton.

Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.

Something growing superfluously.

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

er a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

r where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation. In then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, the national character. Coleridge.

To superfetate. [Obs.]

A superficies. [Obs.] Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.