Talk:disabuse

shouldn't "It won't take them to disabuse the newcomer of any notions of superiority." be "It won't take them long to disabuse the newcomer of any notions of superiority."?
 * Fixed. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

RFV
RFV for the second, Scottish sense, viz. "mar, spoil, misuse" (used as an intensive of ). It's in the NED (1896) and in the OED (1989), but their only citation of that sense is the first edition of John Jamieson's two-volume Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1825), with the text "Disabuse,..the term is also used Aberd., as signifying to mar, to spoil." — a clear mention, rather than a use. Can we go three better and verify this sense? — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 22:14, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Apparently not. RFV-failed for now. - -sche (discuss) 05:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC)