Definition of challenge

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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?.

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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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation..
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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To censure; to blame.
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..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To summon; to challenge.
Challenged :: Challenged (imp. & p. p.) of Challeng.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
Dare :: Dare (n.) Defiance; challenge.
Challengeable :: Challengeable (a.) That may be challenged.
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 the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
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..
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