| Challenge (challenge) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Chal"lenge |
| [OE.
chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF.
chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr.
L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See
Calumny.] |
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.
The act of a sentry in halting any one
who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
A claim or demand.
The opening and
crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their
game.
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.
An exception to a person as not
legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the
ballot is offered.
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| Challenge (challenge) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Chal"lenge |
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To call to a
contest of any kind] to call to answer; to defy.
To call, invite, or summon to answer
for an offense by personal combat.
To claim as due; to demand as a
right.
To censure; to blame.
To question or demand
the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as,
the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes
there?"
To take exception to; question; as, to
challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a
quotation.
To object to or take
exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
To object to the reception of the vote
of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a
voter.
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| Challenge (challenge) |
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| v. i. | |
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| Chal"lenge |
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To assert a
right; to claim a place.
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