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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



... I shall challenge him very sharply about this, and if, as I believe, he has no justification for his statement, my opinion of him will be very ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... On the Genzano side stands the castellated villa of the Cesarini Sforza, looking peacefully across the lake at the rival tower, which in the old baronial days it used to challenge,—and in its garden-pond you may see stately white swans oaring their way ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 31, May, 1860 • Various
... it seems that you have discovered a comet, which is to run into the earth and destroy all human life, unless you prevent it. I know this because I know of the challenge you gave to the German Emperor in Canterbury. I know also of what you have been doing in Bolton. You are turning a coal pit into a cannon, with which you believe that you can blow this comet into thin air or gas before it meets the earth, ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
... his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, according to the custom of many of them, he was entitled to the premium of a crown, when luckily for him his challenge was not accepted; so that, as I once observed to Dr. Johnson, he DISPUTED his passage through Europe. He then came to England, and was employed successively in the capacities of an usher to an academy, a corrector of the press, a reviewer, and a writer for a news-paper. He ...
— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell
... merely uncouth and lubberly; they grow furtive, suspicious, timid as wild animals, on the watch for a chance to run. Audacious enough at bird's-nesting, sliding, tree-climbing, fighting, and impertinent enough towards people of their own kind, they quail before the first challenge of "superiority." All aplomb goes from them then. It is distressing to see how they look: with an expression of whimpering rebellion, as though the superior person had unhuman qualities, not to be reckoned on—as ...
— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt


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