Difference between revisions of "Challenge"

<p> '''(1):''' (n.) To censure; to blame. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) A claim or demand. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (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. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. </p> <p> '''(9):''' (v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place. </p> <p> '''(10):''' (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. </p> <p> '''(11):''' (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. </p> <p> '''(12):''' (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right. </p> <p> '''(13):''' (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?" </p> <p> '''(14):''' (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. </p> <p> '''(15):''' (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. </p>

<p> CHALLENGE, n. Literally, a calling, or crying out, the primary sense of many words expressing a demand, as claim. Hence appropriately, </p> 1. A calling upon one to fight in single combat an invitation or summons, verbal or written, to decide a controversy by a duel. Hence the letter containing the summons is also called a challenge. 2. A claim or demand made of a right or supposed right. <p> There must be no challenge of superiority. </p> 3. Among hunters, the opening and crying of hounds at the first finding the scent of their game. 4. In law, an exception to jurors the claim of a party that certain jurors shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause that is, a calling them off. The right of challenge is given both in and criminal trials, for certain causes which are supposed to disqualify a juror to be an impartial judge. The right of challenge extends either to the whole panel or array, or only to particular jurors, called a challenge to the polls. A principal challenge is that which the law allows without cause assigned. A challenge to the favor, is when the party alleges a special cause. In criminal cases, a prisoner may challenge twenty jurors, without assigning a cause. This is called a peremptory challenge. <p> CHALLENGE, VT </p> 1. To call, invite or summon to answer for an offense by single combat, or duel. 2. To call to a contest to invite to a trial as, I challenge a man to prove what he asserts, implying defiance. 3. To accuse to call to answer. 4. To claim as due to demand as a right as, the [[Supreme]] Being challenges our reverence and homage. 5. In law, to call off a juror, or jurors or to demand that jurors shall not sit in trial upon a cause. See the noun. 6. To call to the performance of conditions.

<p> <strong> [[Challenge]] </strong> . To ‘challenge’ in the language of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is to <em> claim </em> , as in Golding’s tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Calvin’s <em> Job </em> , p. 578; ‘Iob neuer went about to challenge such perfection, as to have no sinne in him.’ The word occurs in &nbsp; Exodus 22:9 , in the heading of &nbsp; Isaiah 45 ‘By his omnipotency he challengeth obedience;’ and in &nbsp; Job 3:5 AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] . </p>