What is "disabused"

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.

vb. (en-past of: disabuse)

adj. freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth" [syn: disabused(p), undeceived]