Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Facile

Facile , adjective

[Latin facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, from facere to make, do: compare French facile. Srr Fact, and compare Faculty.]

1.
Easy to be done or performed: 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; 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.