unreason

1. (transitive, rare) To prove to be unreasonable; disprove by argument.Examples: "The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! ""; "The elenchus enables him to overturn the formerly secure reasoning of his interlocutors about the subjects they discourse on so confidently—until the Socratic elenchus gradually unreasons them (see especially Meno, 80A—B)."; "Being a father can “unreason” your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights."raretransitive

2. (rare) To apply false logic or think without logic.Examples: "After some trouble I have got the Programme, and now send it on to you ; I beg you to transcribe the first ten pages, in which he reasons, or rather unreasons, about homeopathy, and then send the Programme back to me, as I do not know how to procure another copy."; "In other, happier times, the mind could unreason freely, as if it belonged to no age, emancipated as it was..."; "Just as Heidegger's reflections on the imagination led him to think "The nothing nothings," so Foucault's reflections on madness led him, in effect, to think "Unreason unreasons.""rare

3. (rare) To make unreasonable; to deprive of reason.Examples: "Unbelief unreasons a man: so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith."; "My pathetic collapse provoked them. My unreasonableness unreasoned them."rare