unfascinate

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ fascinate. === Verb === unfascinate (third-person singular simple present unfascinates, present participle unfascinating, simple past and past participle unfascinated) (transitive) To free from a state of fascination. (Can we find and add a quotation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to this entry?) To break this sensual charm, to unfascinate these bedazzled brethren, the writer to the Hebrews institutes a comparison between the two religions, and demonstrates the superior spiritual grandeur, the greater intrinsic worth and dignity of the religion of Christ. 1847, William Mason Cornell, Journal of Health (volumes 2-3, page 294) […] such a general knowledge of pathology […] as will unfascinate him in regard to the magic virtues of mysterious remedies […]