Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAC'ILE, a. [Fr. facile; Sp. facil; L. 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. Evelyn.
2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.
3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere or distant. I mean she should be courteous, facile, sweet. B. Jonson.
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. Milton.