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Webster 1913 Edition
Moliminous
Mo-lim′i-nous
,Adj.
[L.
molimen
a great exertion; moles
a heavy mass.] Of great bulk or consequence; very important.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moliminous
MOLIM'INOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
moliminous
moliminous
English
Adjective
moliminous (not comparable)
- (now rare, archaic) Momentous, weighty.
- 1653, Marchamont Nedham, A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth:
- those great moliminous Bodies of Parlaments are but slow in motion, and attendance will quickly exhaust a good puzzle and patience, before any thing can be done [...].
- 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, I.7.i:
- some Prophecies are not conditional but absolute, as certainly all those are that are of so vast and moliminous Concernment to the World as the appearing of the Messias is.
- 1992, Sabrina P Ramet, Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991:
- But it had moliminous ramifications in the political system in two respects [...].
- 1653, Marchamont Nedham, A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth:
- (now rare, archaic) Laborious, involving or exerting great effort; arduous.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, London 1820, vol IV:
- And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious and distractious thing.
- 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
- All natural logick of expression in the elements is made thereby interrupted and most obscure, howe’er so skilled and moliminous the adeptist.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, London 1820, vol IV: