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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Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat..
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..
Dare :: Dare (n.) Defiance; challenge.
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..
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..
Challengeable :: Challengeable (a.) That may be challenged.
Qui Vive :: Qui vive () The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: Who comes there?.
Recuse :: Recuse (v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause..
Brave :: Brave (n.) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign..
Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..
Postulate :: Postulate (n.) Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence..
Challenged :: Challenged (imp. & p. p.) of Challeng.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) A claim or demand.
Appellant :: Appellant (n.) A challenger.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
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