7 March 2014

supererogation

[soo-per-er-uh-geyt]

verb (used without object), su·per·er·o·gat·ed, su·per·er·o·gat·ing.

– to do more than duty requires.

Origin:
1730–40; < Late Latin superērogātus (past participle of superērogāre to pay out in addition), equivalent to super- super- + ērogātus past participle of ērogāre to pay out, equivalent to ē- e-1 + rog ( ere ) to ask + -ātus -ate1

Related forms
su·per·er·o·ga·tion, noun
su·per·er·o·ga·tor, noun

Anagram

organise troupe
prisoner outage
operation surge
Guinea troopers
up to reorganise

Today’s aphorism

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

– Stanley Kubrick

On this day

7 March 1876 – Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

7 March 1988 – Cyclone Bola strikes Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne/East Cape region of north-eastern New Zealand. It is one of the costliest cyclones to hit N.Z. Three people were killed and thousands evacuated.

7 March 1999 – death of Stanley Kubrick, legendary movie producer. Some of his movies include ’2001 – A Space Odyssey’, ‘The Shining’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’.

7 March 2011 – Charlie Sheen fired from U.S. sitcom, ‘Two and a Half Men’ after allegations of drug abuse.