Definition of challenge

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Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign..

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Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter..
Challenge :: 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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign..
Cartel :: Cartel (v. t.) To defy or challenge.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) A claim or demand.
Trier :: Trier (n.) A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To censure; to blame.
Qui Vive :: Qui vive () The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?.
Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Banter :: Banter (v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
Dare :: Dare (v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation..
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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with Who comes there?.
Impeach :: Impeach (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..
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..
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