Definition of challenge

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Challenge (n.) 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..

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Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Qui Vive :: Qui vive () The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?.
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..
Warrandice :: Warrandice (n.) The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty..
Gage :: Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance..
Recuse :: Recuse (v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause..
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due..
Command :: Command (v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To summon; to challenge.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
Defy :: Defy (n.) A challenge.
Dare :: Dare (n.) Defiance; challenge.
Dare :: Dare (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Cartel :: Cartel (v. t.) To defy or challenge.
Prizer :: Prizer (n.) One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) 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..
Challengeable :: Challengeable (a.) That may be challenged.
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign..
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