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English → English (gcide) Definition: Peremptory challenge Peremptory \Per"emp*to*ry\, a. [L. peremptorius destructive, deadly, decisive, final: cf. F. p['e]remptorie. See Perempt.] 1. Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. [1913 Webster] Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. [1913 Webster] Be not too positive and peremptory. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Briefly, then, for we are peremptory. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Firmly determined; unawed. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Peremptory challenge (Law) See under Challenge. Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus. Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar. [1913 Webster] Syn: Decisive; positive; absolute; authoritative; express; arbitrary; dogmatical. [1913 Webster] Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] A challenge to controversy. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [1913 Webster] 3. A claim or demand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] There must be no challenge of superiority. --Collier. [1913 Webster] 4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [1913 Webster] 5. (Law) 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. --Blackstone [1913 Webster] 6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [1913 Webster]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Peremptory challenge Peremptory \Per"emp*to*ry\, a. [L. peremptorius destructive, deadly, decisive, final: cf. F. p['e]remptorie. See Perempt.] 1. Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. [1913 Webster] Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. [1913 Webster] Be not too positive and peremptory. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Briefly, then, for we are peremptory. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Firmly determined; unawed. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Peremptory challenge (Law) See under Challenge. Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus. Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar. [1913 Webster] Syn: Decisive; positive; absolute; authoritative; express; arbitrary; dogmatical. [1913 Webster] Challenge \Chal"lenge\, n. [OE. chalenge claim, accusation, challenge, OF. chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false accusation, chicanery. See Calumny.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] A challenge to controversy. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. [1913 Webster] 3. A claim or demand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] There must be no challenge of superiority. --Collier. [1913 Webster] 4. (Hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. [1913 Webster] 5. (Law) 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. --Blackstone [1913 Webster] 6. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning any cause. Principal challenge, that which the law allows to be sufficient if found to be true. [1913 Webster]
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