I.a great exertion, effort, endeavor, attempt, undertaking (mostly poet., not in Cic.): “ventus Trudit agens magnam magno molimine navem,” Lucr. 4, 902: “revellere Annosam pinum magno molimine,” Ov. M. 12, 357: “quanto cum fastu, quanto molimine circum Spectemus vacuam Romanis vatibus aedem,” Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 93: “sceleris,” Ov. M. 6, 473: “res, suo ipsa molimine gravis,” Liv. 2, 56: rerum, Ov. P. 1, 2, 75: “molimine vasto tabularia,” id. M. 15, 809.
mōlīmen , ĭnis, n. molior,