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undeˈceive, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To free (a person) from deception or mistake; to deliver from an erroneous idea.
1598Florio, Disingannare, to vndeceiue, to cleare, to free or resolue from any doubt. 1651Baxter Let. to Ch. at Bewdley 9 If this much will not undeceive the misled, let them for me be deceived still. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 83, I am resolved to undeceive mankind. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 215, I think my self oblig'd to undeceive the Publick. 1769Junius Lett. xxxv. (1788) 182 Nothing less than your own misfortunes can undeceive you. 1839Alison Hist. Eur. liv. VII. 305 No sooner was he undeceived in this particular, than he despatched the most pressing orders. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 45, I will very soon undeceive his lordship.
refl.1687Miége ii, To undeceive himself, se desabuser. 1708J. Hughes tr. Fontenelle's Dial. i. v. 21 Undeceive yourself, I beseech you. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. vii, It is hard to undeceive ourselves. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right ii, My heart had only now undeceived itself.
b. Const. of (an error, etc.).
1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored To Rdr. 1 To undeceive my Country men of such Calumnies as are cast upon this..study. 1710J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Nat. Philos. (1729) I. Pref., A Man who had undeceived the World of an ancient Errour. 1823Southey Hist. Penins. War I. 427 He was undeceived of both errors in the Peninsula.
2. To instruct by removal of error.
1649Milton Eikon. i. 13 Thus much be said in general to his Prayers;..anough to undeceive us what esteem we are to set upon the rest. |