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.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI