Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-A-BUSE', v.t. [disabu'ze; Fr. desabuser. See Abuse.]

To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. It is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. – J. Adams.