'Principal challenge' definitions:

Definition of 'Principal challenge'

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  • Principal \Prin"ci*pal\, a. [F., from L. principalis. See Prince.]
  • 1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. [1913 Webster]
  • Wisdom is the principal thing. --Prov. iv. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Principal axis. See Axis of a curve, under Axis.
  • Principal axes of a quadric (Geom.), three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid.
  • Principal challenge. (Law) See under Challenge.
  • Principal plane. See Plane of projection (a), under Plane.
  • Principal of a quadric (Geom.), three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid.
  • Principal point (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection.
  • Principal ray (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane.
  • Principal section (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Principal challenge'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]