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*sl"*tt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Facilitated (-t`td); p.
pr. & vb. n. Facilitating (-t`tng).] [Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility.]
To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment;
to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times
call for.