'Facilely' definitions:

Definition of 'Facilely'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. [1913 Webster]
  • The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. [1913 Webster]
  • I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. [1913 Webster]
  • Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile*ly}, adv. -- {Fac"ile*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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