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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."

adjective

challenging adj.

1.

Requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.

Synonyms: ambitious, demanding.

2.

Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.

Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant, resistive.

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Etymology of 'Challenging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Challenging" Quotes from Famous Books

... of it! Disconsolate because he couldn't marry you, moody because he has to wait so long, he seeks comfort in challenging the King of the Grove. Oh, I love him! Only a prince of good fellows would have thought of it. No ordinary adventure would divert him. He picks out the most hazardous venture possible. Oh, ...

— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White

... through the gate-way into their hay-field, and Fred had checked his horse, when Hiram Ford, observing himself at a safe challenging distance, turned back and shouted a defiance which he did not ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... the doctor; "I will have no quarrelling or challenging; I find I have made some mistake, and therefore I insist upon it by all the rights of friendship, that you give me your word of honour you will not quarrel with ...

— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding

... best of it; I am sure that the stranger will beat us, for you see how our man was killed by just a push from his hand; when he gives a real blow the man will fly into bits. Now, I advise you to dismiss the contestants and put an end to the game and stop challenging the stranger. So, you go up to the stranger and shake hands,[29] you two, and welcome him, to let the people see that the fight is altogether ...

— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous

... General Buell, and they repelled with some asperity the reflections cast upon him by his critics. These admirers held him blameless throughout for the blunders of the campaign, but the greater number laid every error at his door, and even went to the absurdity of challenging his loyalty in a mild way, but they particularly charged incompetency at Perryville, where McCook's corps was so badly crippled while nearly 30,000 Union troops were idle on the field, or within striking distance. With these ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. I., Part 2 • P. H. Sheridan

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