Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
free somebody (from an erroneous belief);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
To undeceive and disabuse the people. --South.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disabuse
v 1: free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better
error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.