e of _loan_ as a verb is not sanctioned by good use.
Properly the word is a noun. A _loan_ is money which a person _lends_.

[91] "Foundations," p. 109.
[92] A.S. Hill: Principles of Rhetoric, revised edition, p. 38.
[93] The Century Dictionary.

EXERCISE LV.

_Tell the difference in meaning between_--

1. The Amazon _captivated (captured)_ our hero.
2. The king _depreciated (deprecated)_ Napoleon's effort to raise a new
army.
3. The readiness with which men _impute (impugn)_ motives is much to be
regretted.

EXERCISE LVI.

_Insert the proper word in each blank, and give the reason for your
choice:--_

ACCREDIT, CREDIT.
1. Mr. Lowell was ----ed as Minister Plenipotentiary to England.
2. These reasons will ---- his opinion.
3. He did not ---- the strange report.
4. The contribution of five dollars previously ----ed to Mr. Williams came
from Mr. Brown.
5. Mr. Sherman is well ----ed as a writer on finance.
6. The bank has not ----ed me with the interest on the deposit.

ARISE, RISE.
7. The court ---- at four o'clock.
8. At the discharge of a gun whole flocks of quail would ----.
9. The idea of a reward did not ---- in his mind.
10. Most of these appalling accidents ---- from negligence.
11. The men ---- against their officers.
12. Other cases of mutiny may ----.

CAPTIVATE, CAPTURE.
13. Her husband was ----d in the battle of Gettysburg.
14. Mr. S. was ----d by the young widow's beauty.
15. Let us attack them now and try to ---- the whole squad.
16. It is not merely what Chaucer has to say, but even more the agreeable
way he has of saying it, that ----s our attention and gives him an
assured place in literature.

DEPRECIATE, DEPRECATE.
17. Financial panics are likely to follow a--d currency.
18. His purpose was--d by all who knew it.
19. Both parties--war.
20. It is natural for those who have not succeeded to--the work of those
who have.
21. He--s his daughter's desire to earn her own living.
22. An injurious consequence of asceticism was a tendency to--the
character and the position of woman.

IMPUGN, IMPUTE.
23. We cannot deny the conclusion of a proposition of Euclid without--ing
the axioms which are the basis of its demonstration.
24. The gentleman--s my honesty.
25. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the
happy--all their success to prudence and merit.
26. Mr.X. is uncharitable; he always--s bad motives.

II. A RESEMBLANCE IN SE