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▪ I. perquisite|ˈpɜːkwɪzɪt|
Also 5, 7 perquesite (7 -itt), 6–8 perquisit (7 -itt).
[ad. L. perquīsītum that which is diligently searched for or asked after, in med.L. a thing acquired or gained, an acquisition, f. L. perquīrĕre (see prec.).]
†1. Law. Property acquired otherwise than by inheritance: see purchaser, and cf. conquest n. 6.
[c1250Bracton ii. xxx. §3 Ea quæ dicta sunt, secundum quosdam locum habent de perquisito in utroque casu de hæreditate vero descendente aliud erit. c1290Fleta i. xi, Tenementorum quædam..tenentur in Capite de Corona quædam vero de Rege per escaetam vel per perquisitum.] c1450tr. Charter c 1255 in Godstow Reg. (E.E.T.S.) 257 The londis the whiche the same Alisaundir had bothe of the yifte of the said Raaf his fadir and also of his owne getyng of perquysitis in karsynton. 1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law i. xi. (1636) 50 Though the law giveth it not in point of inheritance, but onely as a perquisite to any of the bloud so hee be next in estate. 1670Blount Law Dict., Perquisite.., signifies any thing gained by ones own industry, or purchased with ones own Money; contradistinguished from that which descends to one, from Father, or other ancestor. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I.
†b. In generalized use: An acquisition. Obs.
1655Jer. Taylor Gold. Grove To Rdr., Not in the Purchases and Perquisites of the World.
2. Law. Casual profits that come to the lord of a manor, in addition to his regular annual revenue. For the sources of these see quot. 1579.
[1379in Madox Formulare (1702) 65 Manerium de Chacombe in Comitatu Northamptoniæ, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis..redditibus, serviciis, pratis, pasturis et perquisitis Curiarum.] a1552Leland Itin. II. 50 King Richard the first gave to Cirencestre the Cortes and Perquisites of 7. Hundredes therabout yn Glocestreshir. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 36 Nowe hath a churle..take it in leace, To wytte the lordship with the perquisite. 1579Expos. Termes of Lawe 156 b, Perquisites are aduauntages and profittes that come to a mannor by casualty, and not yearely: as Escheates, Hariotes, Relyefes, wayfes, strayes, forfaytures, amercements in courts, wardes, maryages, goods and landes purchased by villaines of the same mannor, and diuers such like things that are not certeine but happen by chaunce, sometymes more often then at other tymes. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 102 If the Copyhold were overflowed by the Sea, the Lord should lose his Freehold of the soil, his Seigniory, yearly Rents and Fines for admittances, and all other perquesites. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. vi. 88 Marriage, or the valor maritagii, was not in socage tenure any perquisite or advantage to the guardian, but rather the reverse. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 320 A court baron being incident to a manor of common right, the manor cannot be granted by a private person, with an exception of the court baron and its perquisites; but may be so granted by the King. 1890Gross Gild Merch. I. 6 Commutation of tolls, court perquisites, and other town dues.
3. generally. Any casual emolument, fee, or profit, attached to an office or position in addition to salary or wages.
1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 641, I leaue out the yeerely perquisites that the Pope made of his Elections, Preuentions, Dispensations, Pluralities, Trialities, Totquots, Tolerations: for his Bulles, his Seales, his Signatures: for Eating Flesh, for Egs, for White meat, for Priests Concubines, and for other like merchandise. 1573in Gross Gild Merch. II. 76 The wardens..shall have the same perquisits that they nowe have. 1661J. Stephens Procurations 44 Procurationes for his visitation, ut supra, which is a perquisit or profit of his Spirituall Jurisdiction. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxvii, That part of their Office that enabled them to receive several Admiralty Perquisites and Droits. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 96 Colonel Goddard, Governour of Bermudas..is to be allowed {pstlg}500 per annum, besides the perquisites of his government. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. I. i. 13 When the officers of the Crown received scarcely any salary besides the fees and perquisites of their office. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. iv. 219 The queen..is intitled to an antient perquisite called queen-gold, or aurum reginæ. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 66 There shall be no establishment of officers..with either salaries or perquisites. 1869Baldw. Brown Misread Passages ix. 121 The meat offered in sacrifice was in some measure the perquisite of the priest.
b. fig.
1705Vanbrugh Confed. i. iii, Ah, Flippanta, the perquisites of quality are of an unspeakable value! 1712Addison Spect. No. 469 ⁋1 To an honest Mind the best Perquisites of a Place are the Advantages it gives a Man of doing Good. 1897Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/2 The King [Humbert] seems to have treated the matter [attempt to assassinate him] very coolly, remarking, ‘It is only one of the little perquisites of my trade’.
c. Any article that has served its primary purpose, or that is supposed to be no longer in use, which is customarily left to subordinates, attendants, employees, or servants to turn to their own profit, or which they claim a customary right to take or ‘pick up’ for their own use.
Such are the perquisites of an executioner or hangman, of valets, ladies' maids, cooks, college ‘scouts’, employees or assistants in any work in which there tends to be some waste or superfluity.
c1709Prior Widow & Cat 39 Was it fit To make my cream a perquisite, And steal, to mend your wages? 1735Somerville Chase ii. 285 These claim the Pack, the bloody Perquisite For all their Toils. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. vi, Verdant discovered the extended meaning of the word perquisites [among college servants]. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. vii. 100 The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldier. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 196 The lightermen claimed as their right the perquisites of ‘wastage’ and ‘leakage’, and they took care that these two items should include as much as possible.
d. A gratuity expected or claimed by some employees, waiters, servants, and the like, from those to whom they perform services in connexion with the duties for which they are employed; a customary ‘tip’.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 42 (1754) 222 Most candidates get leave of the proctor, by paying his man a crown, (which is call'd his perquisite,) to chuse their own examiners. 1727Gay Begg. Op. ii, Your father's perquisites for the escape of prisoners must amount to a considerable sum in the year. 1803Censor 1 Mar. 33, I would meet another objection, namely, that what is given to servants at inns is not to be looked upon as wages, but as perquisites. 1841W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Pauls I. 325 A party of choristers..were demanding ‘spur-money’ of him—an exaction which they claimed as part of their perquisites.
e. More vaguely: The emoluments or income from any office.
Prob. so called first in cases where the income consisted solely or mainly of casual receipts or gratuities.
1712Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 413 Dr. Hudson made..[me] second Keeper of the Bodleian Library with Liberty allow'd..of being Keeper of the Anatomy Schoole..on purpose to advance the perquisites of the Place which are very inconsiderable. 1784Cowper Task vi. 848 Where he that fills an office, shall esteem Th' occasion it presents of doing good More than the perquisite.
†4. concr. An adjunct, appurtenance, or proper accompaniment of anything. Obs.
[1494Will of W. Stanborough (Somerset Ho.), Item lego dicte ecclesie..unum craterem argenteum..ad fabricandum exinde novam crucem argenteam cum aliis perquesitis.] 1667Pepys Diary 22 Aug., My wife very fine to-day, in her new suit of laced cuffs and perquisites. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 383 Casbin..the City is much decay'd,..and..it has lost all those Perquisites that set forth the Pomp and Grandeur of a sumptuous Court.
5. fig. A thing to which one has the sole right.
1793Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ep. to the Pope Prol. 8 King⁓making unto man is justly given, Once the great perquisite indeed of Heaven. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) II. ix. 452 The government kept a most jealous eye upon what it regarded as its own peculiar perquisites. 1877Black Green Past. xxv. (1878) 198 Assaults on seats [in parliament] deemed even more a personal perquisite than his own.
6. attrib. and Comb.
1712(title) The Perquisite Monger. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 100 The modern practice of perquisite-taking, which he says may be stiled a skreen for bribery. 1809E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 94 The perquisite-mongers..blow out the candles with all expedition, to save as much as possible for themselves. 1899Daily News 20 July 5/2 This method..does away with..the abominable perquisite system.
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