CHALLENGE Copy link • CHALLENGE 1. v. provocare (absolutely, Liv., 24, 8): any body to a battle, provocare aliquem ad pugnam or ad certamen (especially one out of many): evocare aliquem ad pugnam (to call out one who is in a camp, etc.): elicere aliquem ad certamen (to try to make one fight who is unwilling to do so): lacessere aliquem ad pugnam (to provoke him to fight by attacking him: especially of a body of troops): to a duel, aliquem provocare ad pugnam or ad certamen (ad certamen singulare or pugnam singularem, if it is necessary to express this): to challenge anybody to drink, provocare aliqueni bibendo: to drink bumpers poscere majoribus poculis: do a discussion, aliquem ad disputandum provocare, evocare, or elicere (the first post-Ciceronian; the last, in Cic., always with the notion of resistance on the part of the person challenged). To challenge a juror, judicem rejicere. Claim as due, sibi vindicare or sumere aliquid. [Vid: CLAIM] To challenge contradiction. impugnari non posse; evidentem esse, omnibus probare, etc. 2. s. provocatio.