LekhoriLekhoriA confrontation; a dare.
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
A procedure or action.
To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
We challenged the boys next door to a game of football.
To dare (someone).
From Middle English chalenge, variant with palatalization of Middle English kalange (“an accusation, claim”), from Old French chalenge, chalonge, palatalized Central French variants of Old Northern Fr...
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[...] For I challenge any Man to make any pretence to Power by Right of Fatherhood, either intelligible or poſſible in any one, otherwiſe, then either as Adams heir, or as Progenitor over his own deſcendants, naturally ſprung from him.
To dispute (something); to contest.
to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation