facIleness, facilness

[Eng. facile; -ne .) The quality or state of being facile or easy; easine , ease. fa-çil-1-tāte, v . t . [From Fr. faciliter , with Eng. verb suff. -ate , from Lat. facilitas ease, from facilis easy; Sp. facilitar ; Ital. facilitare .] To make easy or le difficult; to free or clear from difficulty or impediments; to diminish the labor of; to further. fa-çil-i-ta-tion, s. [From Fr. faciliter, with Eng. suff. -ation.] The act of making easy or le difficult. "Who can believe that they foresaw the use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce?" Rambler, No. 103. fa-çil-1-ty, s . [Fr. facilité , from Lat. facilitas , from facilis easy; Sp. facilidad ; Ital. facilità .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The quality of being easy to be done; casine ; freedom from difficulty. "The facility with which government has been overturned in France." -Burke : Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. 2. An opportunity, means, or advantage in the performance of any act, or the attainment of any object; as, Every facility was afforded him. 3. Readine , quickne , dexterity; ease in performance. "The facility and a iduity with which he wrote are sufficiently proved by the bulk and dates of his works."Macaulay. Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. *4. Easine of acce ; complaisance; affability; freedom from austerity or haughtine . "She has a kind of facility in taking." Middle ton: A Mad World, iii. *5. Easine or readine to be persuaded or led; pliability of disposition; readine to comply with the advice or wishes of others. "It is a great mistake to take facility for good nature." L'Estrange. II. Scots Law : A state of mental weakne , not so great as idiocy, but implying want of firmne of mind, and a consequent readine to be persuaded to do anything. For the difference between facility and ease , see EASE. *faç-I-nër-I-ous, a . [A corrupt. of facinorous (q. v.).] Wicked, atrocious, abominable. "He's of a most facinerious spirit."- Shakesp . All's façade, a front. *fa-çled, a . [Eng.face; -ed.] Of good appear ance. *fa-çi-ent (or çi as shi), s . [Lat. faciens , pr. par . of facio =to do.] 1. Ord. Lang.: One who does anything, good or bad; a doer. 2. Alg .: The variant of a quantity as distinguished from the co-efficient.