CHALLENGE
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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.
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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.
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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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