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The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: "Who comes there?"
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n.
The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.
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.
v. t.
To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
v. t.
To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
n.
One who challenges.
n.
To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
n.
To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
n.
To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
v. t.
To challenge; also, to nonplus.
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.
n.
A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
imp. & p. p.
of Challenge
n.
A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
n.
An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
a.
That may be challenged.
n.
One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
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.
v. i.
To assert a right; to claim a place.
v. t.
To call to account; to challenge.
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