dis·a·buse v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabused p. pr. & vb. n. Disabusing.] 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.
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disabused
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]