com-mōlĭor (conm-), ītus, 4, v. dep. (ante- and post-class. and very rare); prop.,
to set in motion : commoliri tempestas fulmina coeptat, Lucr. 6, 255.—Trop.: lamenta virum commoliri atque ciere, Lucr. 6, 242 Lachm. N. cr. : dolum aut machinam, Caecil. Stat. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73. —Transf.: nimis moleste confabricatus commolitusque est originem vocabuli, has undertaken , Favorin. ap. Gell. 3, 19, 3.