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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.