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facilely ad. 容易地;輕快地;伶俐地 容易地;輕快地;伶俐地 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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