Făc'ile, a.

(făs'il), a. [Lat. facilis, from facere, to make, do, and therefore, properly, capable of being done or made; Fr. & It. facile, Sp. facil.] 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. I mean 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.