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Supererogatory vs Superordinate - What's the difference?

supererogatory | superordinate |

As adjectives the difference between supererogatory and superordinate

is that supererogatory is pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in roman catholicism while superordinate is greater in degree, rank or position.

As a noun superordinate is

that which is superordinate.

As a verb superordinate is

to cause to be superordinate.

supererogatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism
  • *1886 , , 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.
  • * 1988 , Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
  • ‘In now you come,’ she ordered, ‘and we make love.’ That seemed supererogatory to David Jones, who, under the gaze of the painted deer, got in there and did as he was told.
  • * 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

    superordinate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Greater in degree, rank or position
  • (logic) The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance.
  • (linguistics, of a word or phrase) hypernymic
  • Antonyms

    * (greater in rank or position) subordinate * (hypernymic) hyponymic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is superordinate.
  • (linguistics) A hypernym.
  • Synonyms

    * hypernym

    Verb

    (superordinat)
  • To cause to be superordinate.
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