perquisiten.

Brit.

/ˈpəːkwᵻzɪt/, U.S.

/ˈpərkwəzət/

Forms: late Middle English perquysite, late Middle English– perquisite, 1500s 1700s perquisities (plural, probably transmission error), 1500s–1700s perquisit, 1600s perquesite, 1600s perquisitt, 1700s–1800s parquisite (irregular). N.E.D. (1906) also records a form late Middle English perquesite.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perquisitum.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin perquisitum a thing acquired or gained, an acquisition, profit (from 13th cent. in British sources), (in law) acquired property (c1290, 14th or 15th cent. in British sources; compare sense 1a), (in law) casual profits coming to the lord of a manor (1379 in a British source; compare sense 2), an adjunct, appurtenance, or proper accompaniment of something (1494 in a British source as perquesitum ; compare sense 4), use as noun of neuter of past participle of classical Latin perquīrere perquire v.With sense 3a compare earlier perquisitive n.

a. Law. An acquired piece of property, esp. a property acquired otherwise than by inheritance. Cf. purchaser n. 2, conquest n. 6. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > non-inherited property

purchasec1325

perquisite1443

acquesta1676

1443 in J. H. Bloom Stratford-upon-Avon Gild of Holy Cross (1907) 4 (MED) Yef the rentis wolnat suffise to pay the prystis and make the reparacone, the maystir schalle of his othir perquysites delyuer to the same prokators money suffisaunt and to the satisfaccone of the reparacone.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 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.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 54 Though the law giueth it not in point of inheritance, but onely as a perquisite to any of the bloud so hee bee next in estate.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: 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.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Perquisite, is any thing gotten by a Man's own Industry, or purchased with his own Money, different from that which descends to him from his Father or Ancestors.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1334/1 Perquisite, anything acquired by perquisition.

†b. gen. An acquisition. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > an acquisition or gain

perquisite1655

procurement1753

win1891

1655 Bp. J. Taylor Golden Grove To Rdr. Not in the Purchases and Perquisites of the World.

2. Law. Casual profits coming to the lord of a manor, in addition to the regular annual revenue (see quot. 1579). Now historical.Lordships of the manor still exist in much curtailed form, but lords' rights to quit and chief rents, fines, reliefs, heriots, dues, and forfeitures were extinguished by 1940 under §138 of the 1922 Law of Property Act.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired > by lord of manor

perquisitea1552

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 19 King Richard the first gave to Cirencestre the Cortes and Perquisites of 7. Hundredes therabout yn Glocestreshir.

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 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.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 101 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.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. vi. 88 Marriage, or the valor maritagii, was not in socage tenure any perquisite or advantage to the guardian, but rather the reverse.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (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.

1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 6 Commutation of tolls, court perquisites, and other town dues.

1961 N. C. Richardson Hist. Court of Augmentations 1536–1554 323 Controversies arose as to exactly what franchised rights, among which were perquisites and profits of court, were included in Augmentations grants of land.

1987 Economist (Nexis) 21 Feb. 76 Perks are as old as status, and as durable. Under the nobler title of perquisites they were casual profits that went to the lord of the manor in medieval times.

a. Any casual profit, fee, remuneration, etc., attached to an office or position in addition to the normal salary or revenue. Cf. perk n.²

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired

feec1405

obventionc1425

availc1449

perquisitive?c1450

vailc1450

vantagea1470

perquisite1567

fee-bucka1643

casual1825

perk1869

side benefit1873

1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 735 I leaue out the yeerely perquisites, that ye Pope made of his Elections, Preuentions, Dispensations, Pluralities, Trialities, Totquottes, Tolerations: for his Bulles, his Seales, his Signatures [etc.].

1573 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 76 The wardens..shall have the same perquisits that they nowe have.

1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 44 Procurationes for his visitation, ut supra, which is a perquisit or profit of his Spirituall Jurisdiction.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxvii That part of their Office that enabled them to receive several Admiralty Perquisites and Droits.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 13 When the officers of the Crown received scarcely any salary besides the fees and perquisites of their office.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iv. 219 The queen..is intitled to an antient perquisite called queen-gold.

1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 60 There shall be no establishment of officers..with either salaries or perquisites.

1869 J. B. Brown Misread Passages ix. 121 The meat offered in sacrifice was in some measure the perquisite of the priest.

1945 J. Colville Diary 20 Jan. in Fringes of Power (1985) 554 The Annexe is gloomy and one has all the hard work of Chequers..without any of the perquisites.

1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 47 Free milk from the laird's cows is one of the perquisites the doctor enjoys in return for being here at all.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 12 Feb. 21/1 This land of newsmen, most of them depressives in deep mourning for their lost stature and perquisites.

b. In extended use: anything that comes as part of a role or position; a benefit (or disadvantage) arising from a situation.

ΚΠ

1650 Perfect Weekly Acct. 10–17 July 527 This sheet for Antiquity may plead for some share in paper perquisits, being found amongst the first impressions of the large bundles of news, which hath been Printed since the sitting of this present Parliament.

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 17 I begin to like her strangely; she's the Perquisite of my Place too; for my Ladies Waiting-Woman is the proper Fees of my Lords Chief Gentleman.

1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. iii The perquisites of quality are of an unspeakable value!

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 21 Is Praise the Perquisite of every Paw, Tho' black as Hell, that grapples well for Gold?

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlvi. 236 Crusaders..were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/2 The King seems to have treated the matter [sc. an attempt to assassinate him] very coolly, remarking, ‘It is only one of the little perquisites of my trade.’

1937 Life 12 Apr. 38/2 Iravatha, the elephant... had all the perquisites of a movie star, including another elephant as stand-in.

1989 N.Y. Woman Sept. 91/1 Even those modest perquisites of life in the sub-yuppie class have become, in some, ‘not enough’.

c. A thing that has served its primary purpose or that is no longer in use, and to which a subordinate, employee, etc., has a customary right; spec. a share of an animal, a crop, etc. Now chiefly historical.Such perquisites have historically included those of executioners, valets, ladies' maids, cooks, and various other employees or assistants in any work in which there tends to be some waste or superfluity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > as a perquisite

vail1592

perquisitec1709

perk1869

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired > as thing left to servant or subordinate as right

vail1592

perquisitec1709

fringe benefit1952

c1709 M. Prior Widow & Cat 39 Was it fit To make my cream a perquisite, And steal, to mend your wages?

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 285 These claim the Pack, the bloody Perquisite For all their Toils.

1767 Let. in N.Y. Jrnl. 26 Nov. In the Hospitals, whatever Patients died, their Hair became the Perquisite of the Nurses, who carefully sheared them, to supply this Great Demand for Human Hair.

1830 R. Forby & G. Turner in R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia I. App. 432 The umbles of the deer..were the perquisite of the huntsman.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vii. 248 The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldier.

1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVII. 266/1 The remnants..were..the perquisites of the hand-loom weavers.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xvi. 318 The dead man's clothes are the perquisites of the layer-out.

1992 J. Rule Vital Cent. (BNC) 182 The eighteenth-century labourer appropriated a part of his product or a part of the material of his labour. Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold.

†d. The proceeds (of whatever kind) derived from any office or position; pay. Obsolete.Probably so called first in cases where the income consisted solely or mainly of casual receipts or gratuities.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > derived from work or office

juicea1544

earnings1581

perquisite1712

earned income1861

1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 413 Dr. Hudson made..[me] Second Keeper of the Bodlejan 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.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 848 Where he that fills an office, shall esteem Th' occasion it presents of doing good More than the perquisite.

e. A gratuity expected or claimed by a waiter, porter, servant, or the like, for the performance of services; a customary tip.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip

bountethc1440

gratitude1535

vail1605

gratulance1608

gratilitya1616

spill1675

baksheesh1686

simony1707

perquisite1721

tip1755

grace1769

buckshee1773

mancia1798

bonus1834

pouch1880

gravy1910

étrenne1928

sling1948

small1962

toke1971

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius xlv Most Candidates get Leave of the Proctor, by paying his Man a Crown, (which is called his Perquisite,) to chuse their own examiners.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xii. 34 Your Father's Perquisites for the Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year.

1789 E. Butler Jrnl. 19 Mar. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) viii. 191 Dismissed the young man with a perquisite.

1803 Censor 1 Mar. 33 What is given to servants at inns is not to be looked upon as wages, but as perquisites.

1841 W. 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.

1872 ‘E. Perkins’ Saratoga in 1901 175 It is from this the waiters make their perquisites.

1911 Times 27 July 4/7 Extras, though nominally part of the earnings of the cab, have always been retained by the men as their ‘perquisite’.

2003 Guardian (Nexis) 28 June 68 Generous tipping..supplements the income of the beneficiary who is paid accordingly lowly on the proviso that perquisites will be forthcoming.

†4. concrete. An adjunct, appurtenance, or proper accompaniment of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies

purtenancea1382

accessory1429

retinue?a1439

accessaryc1475

companion1533

annexe?1541

hanger-ona1555

supply1567

copemate1581

complement1586

fere1593

adjective1597

annexment1604

annexary1605

attendant1607

adherence1610

adjacent1610

wife1616

fellower1620

coincident1626

attendancy1654

associate1658

appanage1663

conjunct1667

perquisite1667

familiar1668

satellite1702

accompaniment1709

accompanying1761

side dish1775

obbligato1825

shadow1830

rider1859

gadget1917

1667 S. Pepys Diary 22 Aug. (1974) VIII. 396 My wife very fine today in her new suit of laced cuffs and perquisites.

1686 tr. J. Chardin 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. figurative. A thing to which a person, etc., has (or claims) the sole right.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > private property > a piece of

peculium1609

perquisite1793

appanage1835

1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Pope Prol. 8 King~making unto man is justly given, Once the great perquisite indeed of Heaven.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. ix. 488 The government kept a most jealous eye upon what it regarded as its own peculiar perquisites.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxv. 198 Assaults on seats [in parliament] deemed even more a personal perquisite than his own.

1928 Times 30 June 13/1 The office of Governor has become almost a permanent personal perquisite.

1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. v. 282 The office of godi was not coterminous with an estate or original land-taking..but decidedly it remained a perquisite of the rich and powerful.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 19/2 A response to delicate landscape effects is specifically a Western, not an oriental literary value. It is the perquisite of the narrator.

Compounds

† perquisite-monger n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1712 (title) The Perquisite Monger.

1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 94 The perquisite-mongers..blow out the candles with all expedition, to save as much as possible for themselves.

perquisite system n.

ΚΠ

1865 Times 16 Oct. 7/7 By being actually busied in the kitchen a short time daily..a mistress effectually breaks the rod of power in her cook's hands, and can sweep away at once the ‘perquisite’ system.

1985 Acad. Managem. Jrnl. 28 162 Emphasis on status differences as expressed in the perquisite system.

perquisite taking n.

ΚΠ

1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 100 The modern practice of perquisite-taking, which he says may be stiled a skreen for bribery.

1994 RAND Jrnl. Econ. 25 375 Managers' preferences for perquisite taking, avoiding unpleasant duties, and other at-the-expense-of-the-owners activities puts them in conflict with..owners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	perquisite
释义	perquisiten. Brit. /ˈpəːkwᵻzɪt/, U.S. /ˈpərkwəzət/ Forms: late Middle English perquysite, late Middle English– perquisite, 1500s 1700s perquisities (plural, probably transmission error), 1500s–1700s perquisit, 1600s perquesite, 1600s perquisitt, 1700s–1800s parquisite (irregular). N.E.D. (1906) also records a form late Middle English perquesite. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perquisitum. Etymology: < post-classical Latin perquisitum a thing acquired or gained, an acquisition, profit (from 13th cent. in British sources), (in law) acquired property (c1290, 14th or 15th cent. in British sources; compare sense 1a), (in law) casual profits coming to the lord of a manor (1379 in a British source; compare sense 2), an adjunct, appurtenance, or proper accompaniment of something (1494 in a British source as perquesitum ; compare sense 4), use as noun of neuter of past participle of classical Latin perquīrere perquire v.With sense 3a compare earlier perquisitive n. 1. a. Law. An acquired piece of property, esp. a property acquired otherwise than by inheritance. Cf. purchaser n. 2, conquest n. 6. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > non-inherited property purchasec1325 perquisite1443 acquesta1676 1443 in J. H. Bloom Stratford-upon-Avon Gild of Holy Cross (1907) 4 (MED) Yef the rentis wolnat suffise to pay the prystis and make the reparacone, the maystir schalle of his othir perquysites delyuer to the same prokators money suffisaunt and to the satisfaccone of the reparacone. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 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. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 54 Though the law giueth it not in point of inheritance, but onely as a perquisite to any of the bloud so hee bee next in estate. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: 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. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Perquisite, is any thing gotten by a Man's own Industry, or purchased with his own Money, different from that which descends to him from his Father or Ancestors. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1334/1 Perquisite, anything acquired by perquisition. †b. gen. An acquisition. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > an acquisition or gain perquisite1655 procurement1753 win1891 1655 Bp. J. Taylor Golden Grove To Rdr. Not in the Purchases and Perquisites of the World. 2. Law. Casual profits coming to the lord of a manor, in addition to the regular annual revenue (see quot. 1579). Now historical.Lordships of the manor still exist in much curtailed form, but lords' rights to quit and chief rents, fines, reliefs, heriots, dues, and forfeitures were extinguished by 1940 under §138 of the 1922 Law of Property Act. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired > by lord of manor perquisitea1552 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 19 King Richard the first gave to Cirencestre the Cortes and Perquisites of 7. Hundredes therabout yn Glocestreshir. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) 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. a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 101 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. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. vi. 88 Marriage, or the valor maritagii, was not in socage tenure any perquisite or advantage to the guardian, but rather the reverse. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (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. 1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 6 Commutation of tolls, court perquisites, and other town dues. 1961 N. C. Richardson Hist. Court of Augmentations 1536–1554 323 Controversies arose as to exactly what franchised rights, among which were perquisites and profits of court, were included in Augmentations grants of land. 1987 Economist (Nexis) 21 Feb. 76 Perks are as old as status, and as durable. Under the nobler title of perquisites they were casual profits that went to the lord of the manor in medieval times. 3. a. Any casual profit, fee, remuneration, etc., attached to an office or position in addition to the normal salary or revenue. Cf. perk n.² ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired feec1405 obventionc1425 availc1449 perquisitive?c1450 vailc1450 vantagea1470 perquisite1567 fee-bucka1643 casual1825 perk1869 side benefit1873 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 735 I leaue out the yeerely perquisites, that ye Pope made of his Elections, Preuentions, Dispensations, Pluralities, Trialities, Totquottes, Tolerations: for his Bulles, his Seales, his Signatures [etc.]. 1573 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 76 The wardens..shall have the same perquisits that they nowe have. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 44 Procurationes for his visitation, ut supra, which is a perquisit or profit of his Spirituall Jurisdiction. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxvii That part of their Office that enabled them to receive several Admiralty Perquisites and Droits. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 13 When the officers of the Crown received scarcely any salary besides the fees and perquisites of their office. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iv. 219 The queen..is intitled to an antient perquisite called queen-gold. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 60 There shall be no establishment of officers..with either salaries or perquisites. 1869 J. B. Brown Misread Passages ix. 121 The meat offered in sacrifice was in some measure the perquisite of the priest. 1945 J. Colville Diary 20 Jan. in Fringes of Power (1985) 554 The Annexe is gloomy and one has all the hard work of Chequers..without any of the perquisites. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 47 Free milk from the laird's cows is one of the perquisites the doctor enjoys in return for being here at all. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 12 Feb. 21/1 This land of newsmen, most of them depressives in deep mourning for their lost stature and perquisites. b. In extended use: anything that comes as part of a role or position; a benefit (or disadvantage) arising from a situation. ΚΠ 1650 Perfect Weekly Acct. 10–17 July 527 This sheet for Antiquity may plead for some share in paper perquisits, being found amongst the first impressions of the large bundles of news, which hath been Printed since the sitting of this present Parliament. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 17 I begin to like her strangely; she's the Perquisite of my Place too; for my Ladies Waiting-Woman is the proper Fees of my Lords Chief Gentleman. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. iii The perquisites of quality are of an unspeakable value! 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 21 Is Praise the Perquisite of every Paw, Tho' black as Hell, that grapples well for Gold? 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlvi. 236 Crusaders..were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 2/2 The King seems to have treated the matter [sc. an attempt to assassinate him] very coolly, remarking, ‘It is only one of the little perquisites of my trade.’ 1937 Life 12 Apr. 38/2 Iravatha, the elephant... had all the perquisites of a movie star, including another elephant as stand-in. 1989 N.Y. Woman Sept. 91/1 Even those modest perquisites of life in the sub-yuppie class have become, in some, ‘not enough’. c. A thing that has served its primary purpose or that is no longer in use, and to which a subordinate, employee, etc., has a customary right; spec. a share of an animal, a crop, etc. Now chiefly historical.Such perquisites have historically included those of executioners, valets, ladies' maids, cooks, and various other employees or assistants in any work in which there tends to be some waste or superfluity. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > as a perquisite vail1592 perquisitec1709 perk1869 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > casually or incidentally acquired > as thing left to servant or subordinate as right vail1592 perquisitec1709 fringe benefit1952 c1709 M. Prior Widow & Cat 39 Was it fit To make my cream a perquisite, And steal, to mend your wages? 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 285 These claim the Pack, the bloody Perquisite For all their Toils. 1767 Let. in N.Y. Jrnl. 26 Nov. In the Hospitals, whatever Patients died, their Hair became the Perquisite of the Nurses, who carefully sheared them, to supply this Great Demand for Human Hair. 1830 R. Forby & G. Turner in R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia I. App. 432 The umbles of the deer..were the perquisite of the huntsman. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vii. 248 The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldier. 1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVII. 266/1 The remnants..were..the perquisites of the hand-loom weavers. 1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xvi. 318 The dead man's clothes are the perquisites of the layer-out. 1992 J. Rule Vital Cent. (BNC) 182 The eighteenth-century labourer appropriated a part of his product or a part of the material of his labour. Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold. †d. The proceeds (of whatever kind) derived from any office or position; pay. Obsolete.Probably so called first in cases where the income consisted solely or mainly of casual receipts or gratuities. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > derived from work or office juicea1544 earnings1581 perquisite1712 earned income1861 1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 413 Dr. Hudson made..[me] Second Keeper of the Bodlejan 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. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 848 Where he that fills an office, shall esteem Th' occasion it presents of doing good More than the perquisite. e. A gratuity expected or claimed by a waiter, porter, servant, or the like, for the performance of services; a customary tip. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip bountethc1440 gratitude1535 vail1605 gratulance1608 gratilitya1616 spill1675 baksheesh1686 simony1707 perquisite1721 tip1755 grace1769 buckshee1773 mancia1798 bonus1834 pouch1880 gravy1910 étrenne1928 sling1948 small1962 toke1971 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius xlv Most Candidates get Leave of the Proctor, by paying his Man a Crown, (which is called his Perquisite,) to chuse their own examiners. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. xii. 34 Your Father's Perquisites for the Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year. 1789 E. Butler Jrnl. 19 Mar. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) viii. 191 Dismissed the young man with a perquisite. 1803 Censor 1 Mar. 33 What is given to servants at inns is not to be looked upon as wages, but as perquisites. 1841 W. 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. 1872 ‘E. Perkins’ Saratoga in 1901 175 It is from this the waiters make their perquisites. 1911 Times 27 July 4/7 Extras, though nominally part of the earnings of the cab, have always been retained by the men as their ‘perquisite’. 2003 Guardian (Nexis) 28 June 68 Generous tipping..supplements the income of the beneficiary who is paid accordingly lowly on the proviso that perquisites will be forthcoming. †4. concrete. An adjunct, appurtenance, or proper accompaniment of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > that which accompanies purtenancea1382 accessory1429 retinue?a1439 accessaryc1475 companion1533 annexe?1541 hanger-ona1555 supply1567 copemate1581 complement1586 fere1593 adjective1597 annexment1604 annexary1605 attendant1607 adherence1610 adjacent1610 wife1616 fellower1620 coincident1626 attendancy1654 associate1658 appanage1663 conjunct1667 perquisite1667 familiar1668 satellite1702 accompaniment1709 accompanying1761 side dish1775 obbligato1825 shadow1830 rider1859 gadget1917 1667 S. Pepys Diary 22 Aug. (1974) VIII. 396 My wife very fine today in her new suit of laced cuffs and perquisites. 1686 tr. J. Chardin 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. figurative. A thing to which a person, etc., has (or claims) the sole right. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > private property > a piece of peculium1609 perquisite1793 appanage1835 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Pope Prol. 8 King~making unto man is justly given, Once the great perquisite indeed of Heaven. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. ix. 488 The government kept a most jealous eye upon what it regarded as its own peculiar perquisites. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxv. 198 Assaults on seats [in parliament] deemed even more a personal perquisite than his own. 1928 Times 30 June 13/1 The office of Governor has become almost a permanent personal perquisite. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. v. 282 The office of godi was not coterminous with an estate or original land-taking..but decidedly it remained a perquisite of the rich and powerful. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 19/2 A response to delicate landscape effects is specifically a Western, not an oriental literary value. It is the perquisite of the narrator. Compounds † perquisite-monger n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1712 (title) The Perquisite Monger. 1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 94 The perquisite-mongers..blow out the candles with all expedition, to save as much as possible for themselves. perquisite system n. ΚΠ 1865 Times 16 Oct. 7/7 By being actually busied in the kitchen a short time daily..a mistress effectually breaks the rod of power in her cook's hands, and can sweep away at once the ‘perquisite’ system. 1985 Acad. Managem. Jrnl. 28 162 Emphasis on status differences as expressed in the perquisite system. perquisite taking n. ΚΠ 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 100 The modern practice of perquisite-taking, which he says may be stiled a skreen for bribery. 1994 RAND Jrnl. Econ. 25 375 Managers' preferences for perquisite taking, avoiding unpleasant duties, and other at-the-expense-of-the-owners activities puts them in conflict with..owners. 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