challenge

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. Source: opted

3. n. A claim or demand. Source: opted

4. n. The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. Source: opted

5. 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. Source: opted

6. n. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. Source: opted

7. n. To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. Source: opted

8. n. To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. Source: opted

9. n. To claim as due; to demand as a right. Source: opted

10. n. To censure; to blame. Source: opted

11. n. To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?" Source: opted

12. n. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. Source: opted

13. n. To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. Source: opted

14. n. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. Source: opted

15. v. i. To assert a right; to claim a place. Source: opted

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