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From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fac·ile
a.
1.
Easy
to
be
done
or
performed
:
not
difficult
;
performable
or
attainable
with
little
labor
.
Order
. . .
will
render
the
work
facile
and
delightful
.
--
Evelyn
.
2.
Easy
to
be
surmounted
or
removed
;
easily
conquerable
;
readily
mastered
.
The
facile
gates
of
hell
too
slightly
barred
.
--
Milton
.
3.
Easy
of
access
or
converse
;
mild
;
courteous
;
not
haughty
,
austere
,
or
distant
;
affable
;
complaisant
.
I
meant
she
should
be
courteous
,
facile
,
sweet
.
--
B
.
Jonson
.
4.
Easily
persuaded
to
good
or
bad
;
yielding
;
ductile
to
a
fault
;
pliant
;
flexible
.
Since
Adam
,
and
his
facile
consort
Eve
,
Lost
Paradise
,
deceived
by
me
. --
Milton
.
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
.
5.
Ready
;
quick
;
expert
;
as
,
he
is
facile
in
expedients
;
he
wields
a
facile
pen
.
--
Fac*ile*ly
,
adv.
--
Fac*ile*ness
,
n.
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