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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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