Challenge

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Challenged; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Challenging.] [OE. chalengen to accuse, claim, OF.
   chalengier, chalongier, to claim, accuse, dispute, fr. L.
   calumniar to attack with false accusations. See Challenge,
   n., and cf. Calumniate.]
   1. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to
      defy.
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            I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by
            right of fatherhood.                  --Locke.
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   2. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by
      personal combat.
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            By this I challenge him to single fight. --Shak.
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   3. To claim as due; to demand as a right.
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            Challenge better terms.               --Addison.
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   4. To censure; to blame. [Obs.]
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            He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged
            them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from
            them.                                 --Holland.
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   5. (Mil.) 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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   6. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the
      accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
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   7. (Law) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or
      member of a court.
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   8. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the
      ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. [U.
      S.]
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   To challenge to the array, favor, polls. See under
      Challenge, n.
      [1913 Webster]See also:
Challenged Challenging Challenge Calumniate To challenge to the array, favor, polls 

Challenge \Chal"lenge\, v. i.
   To assert a right; to claim a place.
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         Where nature doth with merit challenge.  --Shak.
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Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation,
   challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation,
   contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See
   Calumny.]
   1. 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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            A challenge to controversy.           --Goldsmith.
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   2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his
      post, and demanding the countersign.
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   3. A claim or demand. [Obs.]
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            There must be no challenge of superiority.
                                                  --Collier.
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   4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first
      finding the scent of their game.
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   5. (Law) 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. --Blackstone
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   6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote.
      The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U.
      S.]
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   Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole
      panel.

   Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the
      sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and
      office it is to decide upon it.

   Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or
      more of the individual jurors returned.

   Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to
      defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors
      (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning
      any cause.

   Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be
      sufficient if found to be true.
      [1913 Webster]See also:
Calumny Challenge to the array Challenge to the favor Challenge to the polls Peremptory challenge Principal challenge