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epochal, a.|ˈɛpəkəl|
[f. epoch + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to an epoch or epochs.
1685H. More Paralip. Prophetica 376 If the Epochal note should fall out either before the beginning of the first Semitime, etc. 1827A. & J. Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 355 Shakespeare has given such a national tinge and epochal propriety to his characters. 1847J. Hare Vict. Faith 67 We..hear the striking of one of its [Time's] epochal hours. 1865Draper Intell. Devel. Europe xxvi. 617 The three distinct modes of life occur in an epochal order.
2. Of the nature of an epoch; forming an epoch; epoch-making.
1857M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 416 The..epochal crises of affairs. 1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man ii. 80 [David Hume's] place in the history of philosophy is of epochal importance. 1877Dawson Orig. World vi. 127 Warring..has suggested that the Mosaic days are epochal days. |