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"Section F, G and H"

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.


Fa*cil"i*tate (f&adot;*s&ibreve;l"&ibreve;*tāt),
v.


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