I. Taylor.

Fa*cil`i*ta"tion (?), n. The act of facilitating or making easy.

Fa*cil"i*ty (f*sl"*t), n.; pl. Facilities (- tz). [L. facilitas, fr.

facilis easy: cf. F. facilitÈ. See Facile.] 1. The quality of being

easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an

operation.

The facility with which government has been overturned in France.

Burke.

2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use;

dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works

of art.

3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a

bad sense; pliancy.

It is a great error to take facility for good nature.

L'Estrange.

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