PER'QUISITE, noun s as z. [Latin perquisitus, perquiro; per and quoero, to seek.] A fee or pecuniary allowance to an officer for services, beyond his ordinary salary or settled wages; or a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service, in lieu of an annual salary. [The latter is the common acceptation of the word in American.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.