challenge sb. (3 the usual sense in S.)
1.
claim
1H6 V. iv. 153
“Of benefit proceeding
from our king And not of any challenge
of desert.”
2.
in law, exception
taken against either persons or things
H8 II. iv. 75
“and make my challenge
You shall not be my judge.”
3.
summons to single
combat Ado I. i. 41, Rom. II. iv. 8.
