单词 | disabuse |
释义 | disabusen. The action or fact of freeing a person from a false or erroneous belief; the dispelling of a misconception, error, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. disabusal n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > enlightenment > [noun] > undeceiving disabuse1620 undeceiving1648 clarifying1677 undeception1694 disabusal1851 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote lxxiv. 496 I..am aggreeued that this disabuse [Sp. desengaño] hath hapned so late vnto me. 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia x. 105 The deterrings and disabuses appeare together with the delectations. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 339 Disabuse is the Son of Truth. 1849 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Feb. 104 The object sought to be attained by the publication of this volume is the disabuse of the public mind of the erroneous opinions industriously propagated by enemies Foreign and Domestic. 1929 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 21 May 7/5 The battle against the quack is eternal. It succeeds only insofar as mankind can be convinced of the necessity of idealism and the disabuse of credulity. 1997 W. D. King Writing Wrongs Introd. 5 The disabuse of his illusions left Shawn increasingly skeptical of notions of freedom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). disabusev.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)] tuckc888 tawc893 misbedeOE graithc1330 to fare fair or foul with1340 misusea1382 outrayc1390 beshrewc1430 huspelc1440 misentreat1450 mistreat1453 abuse?1473 to mayne evil1481 demean1483 to put (a person) to villainya1513 harry1530 mishandle1530 touse1531 misorder1550 worrya1556 yark1565 mumble1588 buse1589 crow-tread1593 disabuse1607 maltreat1681 squeeze1691 ill-treat1794 punish1801 tousle1826 ill-use1841 razoo1890 mess1896 to play horse with1896 to bugger about1921 slug1925 to give (a person) the works1927 to kick about or around1938 mess1963 1607 in Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 119 Thair is sindrie persones..quha sittis up..drinking and playing in uther mennis houssis and disabusing thame selfis. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Disabuse,..the term is also used Aberd., as signifying to mar, to spoil. 2. transitive. To free from abuse; esp. to free from error or deception; (now chiefly) to relieve of a false or erroneous belief or view; to undeceive; to convince otherwise. Cf. abuse v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] > undeceive to bring (a person) to reasona1400 to set (also put) someone right1551 unhoodwink1585 undeceive1598 unbeguile1599 disabuse1611 disdeceive1622 disinveigle1635 clarify1642 unconfound1649 uncheat1650 undelude1651 ungull1652 unpervert1655 unseduce1664 unbewilder1668 unclouda1711 disillude1860 disillusionize1861 disillusion1864 de-bamboozle1919 straighten1956 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desabuser, to disabuse, to rid from abuses. 1620 Proclam. James I 7 Feb. We haue hereby giuen so large and sufficient a time for Our good Subiects to disabuse themselues by ridding their hands of those light pieces of Golde. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. Introd. 7 To..disabuse our minds from those false Images. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 14 [Man] Still by himself abus'd, or dis-abus'd. 1795 A. Bradford Disc. delivered at Hallowell 12 It disabuses the character of God of many unworthy, unjust imputations. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 136 It remained for Clement VII to disabuse men of their alarms. 1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. Introd. 24 To disabuse their minds of the idea that the one is wrong, the other right. 1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 165/1 He appealed to the Press to disabuse the public of these erroneous beliefs. 1993 L. Watson Montana 1948 i. 16 For those of you who automatically think of Montana and snow-capped mountains in the same synapse, let me disabuse you. 2012 Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner 21 Mar. b6/5 I want to disabuse anyone of that view, because it is an unworkable view. Derivatives disaˈbused adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceived > not undeceivedc1475 unbeguileda1533 disabused1611 uncheated1747 unblinded1755 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desabusé,..disabused; unblinded; deliuered of errors, rid from abuses. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar xii. §20 Wise and disabused persons. 1824 Morning Chron. 6 Oct. Are these the same people? yes, but the cured, the disabused people. 1989 Fortnight July 6/1 Donegore Hill..gives an unusually robust and disabused account of the Battle of Antrim. 2013 P. M. Kitromilides Enlightenment & Revol. iv. 119 The new outlook adopted by the disabused observers of enlightened absolutism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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