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Epochal

Epochal \Ep"o*chal\, a. Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch. ``Epochal points.''
--Shedd.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
epochal

1680s, from epoch + -al (1).

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epochal

a. 1 of or pertaining to an epoch 2 highly important or significant; monumentous, epoch-making

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epochal

adj. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery" [syn: epoch-making]

Usage examples of "epochal".

Moreover, the Hojo based their rule on an epochal formulary, the Jdei Code of 1232, which contained detailed provisions dealing with those matters that were of most concern to the members of a warrior class, including the duties of land stewards and constables, the distribution of fiefs, and the settlement of armed disputes.

Westernization versus traditionalism was conducted principally by the members of a new generation whose most impressionable years of intellectual growth had been spent during the epochal, but highly unsettling, period of transition from Tokugawa to Meiji.

Dostoevsky was freed from captivity, and while he was still serving as a soldier, Russia entered an epochal new stage of its development.

If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century--any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America--or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.

The result, last time, had been an epochal, roaring row, in which the former king had openly accused his youngest of cowardice and lack of manhood, after having sneakily filled him brimfull of Hatburna mead.

Meredith thought the desegregation of the military was among the most epochal developments in the history of black Americans.

Meredith thought military desegregation was epochal: SEP, November 10, 1962, p.

We recognize the poverty of this description, but we sometimes prefer it to others because at least postmodernity indicates the epochal shift in contemporary history.

American botanists, an observer of international reputation and the author of several epochal treaties upon his chosen branch of science.

Several years before the discovery, he had presented a rather daring paper at Pretoria stating his belief that in ages past epochal changes were caused by Luyten 726 being a triple star system.