unfool

From un- +‎ fool.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈfuːl/

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unfool (third-person singular simple present unfools, present participle unfooling, simple past and past participle unfooled)

1. (transitive) To restore from folly, from being a fool, or from being foolish.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     haue you any
     way then to vnfoole me againe. Set downe the basket

• “unfool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.