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▪ I. † disaˈbuse, n. Obs.
[f. dis- 9 + abuse n., under influence of disabuse v.]
The act of disabusing, or fact of being disabused.
1620Shelton Quix. IV. xxxiii. 253 I am aggrieved that this Disabuse hath happened so late unto me. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo I. 339 Disabuse is the Son of Truth.
▪ II. disabuse, v.|dɪsəˈbjuːz|
[f. dis- 6 + abuse v.]
1. trans. To free from abuse, error, or mistake (see abuse v. 4 b, n. 2); to relieve from fallacy or deception; to undeceive.
1611Cotgr., Desabuser, to disabuse, to rid from abuses. 1653Walton Angler 6, I hope in time to disabuse you and make the contrary appear evidently. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. Introd. 7 To..disabuse our minds from those false Images. 1732Pope Ess. Man ii. 14 [Man] still by himself abus'd, or dis-abus'd. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 136 It remained for Clement VII to disabuse men of their alarms. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 24 To disabuse their minds of the idea that the one is wrong, the other right.
2. As an intensive of abuse: To mar, spoil, misuse. Sc.
1825–80in Jamieson.
Hence disaˈbused ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Desabusé..disabused; unblinded; deliuered of errors, rid from abuses. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. xii. §20 Wise and disabused persons. |