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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv -- {Fac"ile*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: facile adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand" [syn: {easy}] 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: {eloquent}, {fluent}, {silver}, {silver-tongued}, {smooth-spoken}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: FacileA {concurrent} extension of {ML} from {ECRC}. {(http://www.ecrc.de/facile/facile_home.html)} ["Facile: A Symmetric Integration of Concurrent and Functional Programming", A. Giacalone et al Intl J Parallel Prog 18(2):121-160, Apr 1989]. (1994-12-01)
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