The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perquisition
Perquisition \Per`qui*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. perquisition.]
A thorough inquiry of search. [R.]
--Berkeley.
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perquisition
n. A thorough inquiry or search.
Usage examples of "perquisition".
On the next day they harassed with their perquisitions all those who let lodgings.
The custom-house officials made a minute, vexatious and even an impertinent perquisition.
And the following morning at daybreak, Gourdon, who was only a subordinate officer on the Committee of Public Safety, took it upon himself to institute a perquisition in the château of Gentilly, which is situated close to the commune of that name.