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.