Crossword clues for disabuse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disabuse \dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabused; p. pr. & vb. n. Disabusing.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F. d['e]sabuser.] To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of; as, to disabuse one of his illusions.
To undeceive and disabuse the people.
--South.
If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse
themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,
they will consider this event as an era in their
history.
--J. Adams.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To free (someone) (term: of) a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (somebody).
WordNet
v. free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
Usage examples of "disabuse".
I may say that I only began to love God when my mind was disabused of priestly superstitions concerning Him.
To disabuse her of this idea I told her that I was very rich, and that I wanted to make her understand that I could not give her enough to testify my gratitude to her for the care she had taken of the good nun.
As a result, Mick had erroneously assumed he was a sorcerer and Brewster had decided it would only complicate things unnecessarily if he attempted to disabuse him of that notion.
And India Parr in this room: charming and cautious by turns, gracious, fighting her natural inclination to be alone, still wearing her woolen shawl as if it were a breastplate of armor, while speaking of Cyprians and disabusing him of the notion that he might share her bed.
I thought frantically, and then I was instantly disabused of that notion as I saw Mordant himself, same size as before, descend screeching toward the giant drabit.
About the year 1611-12 we find him charged with a mission to the Provincial at Asuncion to disabuse him of a report which had been carried there that the Jesuits of Guayra were garnering in no fruit from all their labours in the wilds.
He had known her some eight years since, shortly before the Avellanos had left Europe for good, as a tall girl of sixteen, youthfully austere, and of a character already so formed that she ventured to treat slightingly his pose of disabused wisdom.
It was supposed from the low price that these concerts would be beneath the notice of the high toned dilettanti of the city, but the performance last evening has completely disabused not only the nicely-critical, but the public generally of this idea.
I was beginning to think that my education as a despatcher was complete, and was thinking of asking for the next vacancy, when a little incident occurred that entirely disabused my mind.
If Colben and Haines believed he was dead, Gentry had suggested they not disabuse them of the notion.
But she had more in mind for Xan Meo than mere seduction and the graphic disabusing of his wife.
The Tenebrae have to be disabused of the notion that you are their Messiah.
I would be more than happy to disabuse them of any notions that their faith afforded them safekeeping in any way.
But a statement on the part of the purchasing agent, the notary of Ville-aux-Fayes, disabused them of these suspicions.
You must yourself bring your rival, and not disabuse him as to the foolish tales he will hear about the wealth of the Comte de La Bastie.