facile

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FAC'ILE, adjective [Latin facilis, from facio, to make.] 1. Properly, easy to be done or performed; easy; not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. Order - will render the work facile and delightful. 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere or distant. I mean she should be courteous, facile sweet. 4. Pliant; flexible; easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me.
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