Facile

Definition of Facile

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.

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