Both Uses of
perquisite
in
Moby Dick
- For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times 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.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of them.†
Chpt 88-90
Definition:
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(perquisite) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
or:
a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)