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"ile*ly, adv. --
      Fac"ile*ness, n.
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