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Challenge   /tʃˈæləndʒ/   Listen
noun
Challenge  n.  
1.
An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. "A challenge to controversy."
2.
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
3.
A claim or demand. (Obs.) "There must be no challenge of superiority."
4.
(Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
5.
(Law) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
6.
An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. (U. S.)
Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel.
Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it.
Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.
Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause.
Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true.


verb
Challenge  v. t.  (past & past part. challenged; pres. part. challenging)  
1.
To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. "I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood."
2.
To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. "By this I challenge him to single fight."
3.
To claim as due; to demand as a right. "Challenge better terms."
4.
To censure; to blame. (Obs.) "He complained of the emperors... and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues... from them."
5.
(Mil.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
6.
To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
7.
(Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
8.
To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. (U. S.)
To challenge to the array, To challenge to the favor, To challenge to the polls. See under Challenge, n.


Challenge  v. i.  To assert a right; to claim a place. "Where nature doth with merit challenge."





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"Challenge" Quotes from Famous Books



... the standing army; a number of smaller bulls, his direct descendants; the cows, and the pups. The big bull held his position by force of arms. Occasionally other, unattached, bulls would come swimming by. On arriving opposite the rookery the stranger would utter a peculiar challenge. It was never refused by the resident champion, who promptly slid into the sea, and engaged battle. If he conquered, the stranger went on his way. If, however, the stranger won, the big bull immediately struck ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... "A fair challenge, by Jove," cried the sentinel, turning round, "and from two at once; but it's not easy to bang the soldier with his bandoleers;" then taking up the song where the damsel ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... thirteen; But I excluded, he high and fortunate, This Secretary I could never mate; {88} But Clerk of th' Acts, if I'm a parson, then I shall prevail, the voice outdoes the pen; Though in a gown, this challenge I may make, And wager win, save if you can, your stake. To th' Admiral ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 36. Saturday, July 6, 1850 • Various
... his eyes with his hand to make out what it was that had caught his vision in that flood of red among the dunes. Again it came, a flash of yellow in the red. It was there, and gone. And then it came and lingered, as if inviting him, like a jewel in the sand, or rather, like a challenge and ...
— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham
... impressed by the bravery of Ed Green who stood in the midst of the thick dust and flying chaff close to the tail of the stacker. His teeth shone like a negro's out of his dust-blackened face and his shirt was wet with sweat, but he motioned for "more straw" and David, accepting the challenge, signalled for more speed. Frank swung his lash and yelled at the straining horses, the sleepy growl of the cylinder rose to a howl and the wheat came pulsing out at the spout in such a stream that the carriers were forced to trot on their path to and from the granary in order ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland


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