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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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