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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
facile \fac"ile\a. l. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
   made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. f.
   facile. srr fact, and cf. faculty.
   1. easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
      or attainable with little labor.
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            order . . . will render the work facile and
            delightful.                           --evelyn.
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   2. easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
      readily mastered.
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            the facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                  --milton.
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   3. easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
      austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
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            i meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --b.
                                                  jonson.
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   4. easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
      fault; pliant; flexible.
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            since adam, and his facile consort eve,
            lost paradise, deceived by me.        --milton.
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            this is treating burns like a child, a person of so
            facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
            keeper on the king's highway.         --prof.
                                                  wilson.
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   5. ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
      wields a facile pen. -- fac"ilely, adv. --
      fac"ileness, n.
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see also:
fact faculty fac"ilely fac"ileness 

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