epochn.

Brit.

/ˈiːpɒk/,

/ˈɛpɒk/, U.S.

/ˈɛpək/,

/ˈiˌpɑk/

Forms: α. 1600s–1800s epocha. β. epoche. γ. 1600s– epoch.

Etymology: < late Latin epocha, < Greek ἐποχή stoppage, station, position (of a planet), fixed point of time, < ἐπέχειν to arrest, stop, take up a position, < ἐπί + ἔχειν to hold. Compare French époque, Italian epoca.

I. A fixed point in the reckoning of time.

1. Chronology. The initial point assumed in a system of chronology; e.g. the date of the birth of Christ, of the Hijra, of the foundation of Rome, etc.; an era n. Also, in wider sense, any date from which succeeding years are numbered. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > period with own chronological system or era > initial point in system of chronology

epoch1614

era1615

α.

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 6 The residue will fall neer the first yeer of the Chaldæan Epocha.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iii. ix. 599 The Times of the Beast and the Woman's being in the Wilderness have the same Epocha and beginning.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §12. 252 The Epocha of the Olympiads, of all Profane ones, is the most Ancient.

β. a1658 J. Cleveland On Inundation of River Trent in Wks. (1687) 295 Since we're deliver'd let there be, From this Flood too another Epoche.γ. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World Ep. to Rdr. In divers times and ages, divers epochs of time were used, and several forms of years.a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 148 The pretended Epoch of the Babylonians.1759 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 801 On the Greek brass coins of Sidon..both these epochs seem to have been used.

a. The beginning of a ‘new era’ or distinctive period in the history of humankind, a country, an individual, a science, etc. Phrase, to make an epoch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [noun] > beginning or end of a period

terminusOE

springinga1398

topc1440

fresh1566

front1609

skirt1624

epoch1673

turn1697

terminus post quem1834

terminus ante quem1858

α.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 55 Men that mark out Epocha's are not born in many revolutions.

1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 415 Botany..from hence boasts a new epocha.

1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 360 The congelation of mercury..must be allowed to form a very curious and important epocha in the history of that metal.

1830 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times (ed. 2) I. 18 A circumstance which the..Irish..considered as forming an epocha.

β. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 1 Every work which creates an epoch in literature is one of the great monuments of the human mind.1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 161 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts..but in a silent thought by the way-side.1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 280 Luther's Bible makes an epoch in the formation of the German language.

†b. The date of origin of a state of things, an institution, fashion, etc.; occasionally, an event marking such a date. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > age or period of a thing

birthdaya1500

datea1571

era1646

epoch1655

vintage1929

α.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 281 Nor need we be ashamed that the Christian religion, which we profess, should have so known an Epocha, and so late an original.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. li. 390 Great fisheries have always been epocha's of a great trade and navigation.

1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 14/2 The present crisis would become the epocha of a new splendour to the French monarchy.

1795 in Wythes Decis. Virginia 41 Whether the time of the settlement were the epocha of the title will be enquired.

1824 E. Nares Heraldic Anom. (ed. 2) II. 307 The year 1629 is reckoned the epocha of long perukes.

β. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 156 The Epoche, the Nativity day from whence all the series of this kings troubles are to be computed.γ. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 631 The Year sixty, the grand Epoch of Falshood.1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xii. 290 This period..the epoch of the house of commons in England.

3. In wider sense: A fixed point of time.

a. The date, or assigned position in chronological sequence, of a historical event.Now less precise than date, which indicates a particular year or smaller division of time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > date assigned

epoch1660

era1729

β.

1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 8 Such whose supine felicity but makes In story Chasmes, in Epoche's [in some later edd. epocha's, epocha] mistakes.

γ. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata v. 186 Epoches are sometimes noted in words at length.1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 209 The date of his appearance..the middle of the sixth century before Christ..an epoch which, etc.

b. [= French époque.] A precise date; the exact time at which an event takes place or is appointed to take place. Formerly gen.; now only with reference to natural phenomena (cf. 4).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the date

date?a1400

epoch1761

α.

1761 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 258/2 An offer to treat about these epochas.

γ. 1786 T. Jefferson in Wks. (1859) I. 570 To inform him what other numbers [of arms] you expect to deliver, with the epochs of delivery.1794 E. Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constituents in Wks. (1808) VII. 312 To foresee them [the designs of the court] so well, as to mark the precise epoch on which they were to be executed.1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities (Cabinet Cycl.) 123 When once the notion is obtained that a change of weather will follow that of the moon, the epoch is watched.

c. A point of time defined by the occurrence of particular events or the existence of a particular state of things; a ‘moment’ in the history of anything.It is often uncertain whether a writer meant the word to be taken in this sense or in sense 5, since a given portion of time may be regarded either as a mere date or as a period.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > [noun]

sitheeOE

tidec897

timeeOE

mealeOE

whilec950

throwOE

charec1000

stevenOE

timeOE

seasona1300

tempest1382

world1389

occasionc1425

tidement1575

period1602

minute1607

hinta1670

epoch1728

α.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 73 Not long before this Epocha so calamitous to that unhappy Country.

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 103 In a warm climate..the epocha of maturity seems to happen at a much earlier age than in colder countries.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 9 I well remember, at every epocha of this wonderful history.

1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. viii. 76 At the epocha of the [French] revolution.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lviii. 74 The invention of the steam-engine, almost as great an epocha as the invention of printing.

1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 26 in Compl. Hist. Murder Mr. Weare At one of those epochas the Earl married a Countess in her own right.

1830 W. Godwin Cloudesley I. xiii. 213 From this epocha there was a perpetual struggle in Cloudesley's mind.

γ. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. Introd. 5 Davey and Brewster..sustain that character at the present epoch of Science.1839 T. Carlyle Chartism i. 1 At an epoch of history when the ‘National Petition’ carts itself in waggons along the streets.1852 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation (ed. 2) ii. v. 220 After the last-mentioned epoch..the production of beet-root sugar began rapidly to increase.1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) xviii. 472 At this epoch..the polyp presents two cavities distinct from each other.1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 7 Those noted up to the present epoch.1882 E. R. Pitman Mission Life in Greece 190 It was an epoch never to be forgotten in her life, when she commenced labouring in Joppa.

4. Astronomy. The point of time at which any phenomenon takes place; an arbitrarily fixed date (often the first day of a century or half-century) for which the elements necessary for computing the place of a heavenly body are tabulated. Also, the heliocentric longitude of a planet at such a date (more fully, the longitude of the epoch).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence > of astronomical event

epoch1715

α.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §40. 466 Their Mean Motions made between the said Epocha and the Time proposed, being equated.

1789 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 20 I followed the shadow of the satellite..up to the center, in order to secure a valuable epocha.

1795–8 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. iv. 128 By astronomers the word epocha is used to denote that particular point of the orbit of a planet, wherein that planet is, at some known moment of mean time, in a given meridian.

γ. 1790 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 488 Epochs of the mean longitude of the satellites.1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Astron. ix. 191/2 The longitude of the sun, at some one time, which is called the epoch.1858 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. (ed. 5) iv. 168 They [sc. the clocks] would be found..to differ by the exact difference of their local epochs.

II. A period of time. (Cf. similar use of era, term).

a. In early use, a chronological period dated from an ‘epoch’ in sense 1. In later use, a period of history defined by the prevalence of some particular state of things, by a connected series of events, or by the influence of some eminent person or group of persons.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history

eldOE

timeOE

worldOE

oldc1175

timea1382

epoch1629

era1741

lapse1758

age1827

canon1833

olam1870

α.

1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) lx. sig. L7^v His clothes were neuer young in our memory: you might make long Epocha's from them.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §8 They make three Epocha's, before the Law, under the Law, and the coming of the Messias.

c1720 M. Prior Solomon iii. 758 Scenes of war, and epochas of woe.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 201 Chronologers have divided the age of the world into six different epochas.

1824 L. Stanhope Greece 4 The most shining epocha of her history.

γ. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 161 Ages and epochs that destroy our pride.1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 486 A period of eight years of peace between two epochs of terrible civil discord.1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 467/2 ‘Ah, that indeed is a letter,’ sighs the lover of the Addisonian epoch.

b. A period in an individual's life, or in the history of any continuous process.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [noun] > in a life or history of something

yearsc1175

epoch1768

era1796

α.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 161 There are three epochas in the empire of a Frenchwoman. She is coquette—then deist—then devôte.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 372 This is one of the most extraordinary epochas in English history.

1788 T. Holcroft tr. Life Baron Trenck I. xiv The second great and still more gloomy epocha of my life.

γ. 1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xx. 256 God's treatment of the penitent divides itself in this parable into three distinct epochs.1865 J. W. Draper Intell. Devel. Europe i. 9 We express our surprise when we witness actions unsuitable to the epoch of life.

c. Geology. A period or division of the history of the formation of the earth's crust.Chiefly used indiscriminately for any distinct portion of geological time. The International Congress of 1881 proposed to use the terms era, period, epoch, age to denote successively smaller divisions; but this has not been generally followed.

ΚΠ

α.

1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 123 The most ancient epocha of which any memorial exists in the records of the fossil kingdom.

γ. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 247 The language of those who talk of ‘the epoch of existing continents’.1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. viii. 268 But this would not produce a glacial epoch.

6. Physics. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §54 The Epoch in a simple harmonic motion is the interval of time which elapses from the era of reckoning till the moving point first comes to its greatest elongation in the direction reckoned as positive, from its mean position or the middle of its range.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 9 The maximum excursion of the harmonic vibration x = a cos ^2πt/ _T + α is a... The angle α is called the epoch angle, or simply the epoch.

Compounds

[Perhaps after the equivalent compounds in German.] epoch-forming adj.; epoch-making adj. originally said chiefly of scientific discoveries or treatises; now extended to designate any remarkable or sensational event, publication, etc. epoch-marking adj. journalistic alteration of epoch-making.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice

specialc1405

eminentc1420

markablec1449

noteworthy1552

regardable1572

respectable1584

of —— observation1587

considerable1589

of (great, little, etc.) mark1590

signal1591

remarkable1593

conspicuous1604

noble1604

observative1608

observable1609

significant1642

noteful1644

signalized1652

tall1655

curious1682

notice-worthy1713

unco1724

noticeable1793

handsome1813

epoch-forming1816

measurable1839

epochal1857

epoch-making1863

era-making1894

epoch-marking1895

high profile1950

landmark1959

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 17 All the epoch-forming Revolutions of the Christian world.

1863 Athenæum July 9/1 He has produced what the Germans call an epoch-making book.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 64 Epoch-making men..of human history.

1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church iii. 56 This work of Ezra, and the covenant..were of epoch-making importance.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/2 Every author of an epoch-making or epoch-marking book is liable to pass through two stages.

1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 272 Consent by the United States to administer Constantinople and the Straits, Armenia and Palestine, would be an epoch-marking step in itself.

1923 Daily Mail 16 Jan. 7 This epoch-marking experiment.

1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 59 He produced an epoch-making article.

1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end vi. 93 Most of these inventions, all described as ‘epoch-making’, were never heard of again after the first news-thrill.

1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 6/2 The evil of the Fulton speech..was not that it was ‘epoch-making’ but that it was ‘epoch-marking’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	epoch
释义	epochn. Brit. /ˈiːpɒk/, /ˈɛpɒk/, U.S. /ˈɛpək/, /ˈiˌpɑk/ Forms: α. 1600s–1800s epocha. β. epoche. γ. 1600s– epoch. Etymology: < late Latin epocha, < Greek ἐποχή stoppage, station, position (of a planet), fixed point of time, < ἐπέχειν to arrest, stop, take up a position, < ἐπί + ἔχειν to hold. Compare French époque, Italian epoca. I. A fixed point in the reckoning of time. 1. Chronology. The initial point assumed in a system of chronology; e.g. the date of the birth of Christ, of the Hijra, of the foundation of Rome, etc.; an era n. Also, in wider sense, any date from which succeeding years are numbered. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > period with own chronological system or era > initial point in system of chronology epoch1614 era1615 α. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 6 The residue will fall neer the first yeer of the Chaldæan Epocha. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iii. ix. 599 The Times of the Beast and the Woman's being in the Wilderness have the same Epocha and beginning. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §12. 252 The Epocha of the Olympiads, of all Profane ones, is the most Ancient. β. a1658 J. Cleveland On Inundation of River Trent in Wks. (1687) 295 Since we're deliver'd let there be, From this Flood too another Epoche.γ. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World Ep. to Rdr. In divers times and ages, divers epochs of time were used, and several forms of years.a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 148 The pretended Epoch of the Babylonians.1759 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 801 On the Greek brass coins of Sidon..both these epochs seem to have been used. 2. a. The beginning of a ‘new era’ or distinctive period in the history of humankind, a country, an individual, a science, etc. Phrase, to make an epoch. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > beginning or end of a period terminusOE springinga1398 topc1440 fresh1566 front1609 skirt1624 epoch1673 turn1697 terminus post quem1834 terminus ante quem1858 α. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 55 Men that mark out Epocha's are not born in many revolutions. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 415 Botany..from hence boasts a new epocha. 1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 360 The congelation of mercury..must be allowed to form a very curious and important epocha in the history of that metal. 1830 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times (ed. 2) I. 18 A circumstance which the..Irish..considered as forming an epocha. β. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 1 Every work which creates an epoch in literature is one of the great monuments of the human mind.1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 161 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts..but in a silent thought by the way-side.1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 280 Luther's Bible makes an epoch in the formation of the German language. †b. The date of origin of a state of things, an institution, fashion, etc.; occasionally, an event marking such a date. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > age or period of a thing birthdaya1500 datea1571 era1646 epoch1655 vintage1929 α. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 281 Nor need we be ashamed that the Christian religion, which we profess, should have so known an Epocha, and so late an original. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. li. 390 Great fisheries have always been epocha's of a great trade and navigation. 1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 14/2 The present crisis would become the epocha of a new splendour to the French monarchy. 1795 in Wythes Decis. Virginia 41 Whether the time of the settlement were the epocha of the title will be enquired. 1824 E. Nares Heraldic Anom. (ed. 2) II. 307 The year 1629 is reckoned the epocha of long perukes. β. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 156 The Epoche, the Nativity day from whence all the series of this kings troubles are to be computed.γ. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 631 The Year sixty, the grand Epoch of Falshood.1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xii. 290 This period..the epoch of the house of commons in England. 3. In wider sense: A fixed point of time. a. The date, or assigned position in chronological sequence, of a historical event.Now less precise than date, which indicates a particular year or smaller division of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > date assigned epoch1660 era1729 β. 1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 8 Such whose supine felicity but makes In story Chasmes, in Epoche's [in some later edd. epocha's, epocha] mistakes. γ. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata v. 186 Epoches are sometimes noted in words at length.1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 209 The date of his appearance..the middle of the sixth century before Christ..an epoch which, etc. b. [= French époque.] A precise date; the exact time at which an event takes place or is appointed to take place. Formerly gen.; now only with reference to natural phenomena (cf. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the date date?a1400 epoch1761 α. 1761 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 258/2 An offer to treat about these epochas. γ. 1786 T. Jefferson in Wks. (1859) I. 570 To inform him what other numbers [of arms] you expect to deliver, with the epochs of delivery.1794 E. Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constituents in Wks. (1808) VII. 312 To foresee them [the designs of the court] so well, as to mark the precise epoch on which they were to be executed.1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities (Cabinet Cycl.) 123 When once the notion is obtained that a change of weather will follow that of the moon, the epoch is watched. c. A point of time defined by the occurrence of particular events or the existence of a particular state of things; a ‘moment’ in the history of anything.It is often uncertain whether a writer meant the word to be taken in this sense or in sense 5, since a given portion of time may be regarded either as a mere date or as a period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] sitheeOE tidec897 timeeOE mealeOE whilec950 throwOE charec1000 stevenOE timeOE seasona1300 tempest1382 world1389 occasionc1425 tidement1575 period1602 minute1607 hinta1670 epoch1728 α. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 73 Not long before this Epocha so calamitous to that unhappy Country. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 103 In a warm climate..the epocha of maturity seems to happen at a much earlier age than in colder countries. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 9 I well remember, at every epocha of this wonderful history. 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. viii. 76 At the epocha of the [French] revolution. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. lviii. 74 The invention of the steam-engine, almost as great an epocha as the invention of printing. 1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 26 in Compl. Hist. Murder Mr. Weare At one of those epochas the Earl married a Countess in her own right. 1830 W. Godwin Cloudesley I. xiii. 213 From this epocha there was a perpetual struggle in Cloudesley's mind. γ. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. Introd. 5 Davey and Brewster..sustain that character at the present epoch of Science.1839 T. Carlyle Chartism i. 1 At an epoch of history when the ‘National Petition’ carts itself in waggons along the streets.1852 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation (ed. 2) ii. v. 220 After the last-mentioned epoch..the production of beet-root sugar began rapidly to increase.1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) xviii. 472 At this epoch..the polyp presents two cavities distinct from each other.1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 7 Those noted up to the present epoch.1882 E. R. Pitman Mission Life in Greece 190 It was an epoch never to be forgotten in her life, when she commenced labouring in Joppa. 4. Astronomy. The point of time at which any phenomenon takes place; an arbitrarily fixed date (often the first day of a century or half-century) for which the elements necessary for computing the place of a heavenly body are tabulated. Also, the heliocentric longitude of a planet at such a date (more fully, the longitude of the epoch). ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > [noun] > time of occurrence > of astronomical event epoch1715 α. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. iii. §40. 466 Their Mean Motions made between the said Epocha and the Time proposed, being equated. 1789 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 20 I followed the shadow of the satellite..up to the center, in order to secure a valuable epocha. 1795–8 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. iv. 128 By astronomers the word epocha is used to denote that particular point of the orbit of a planet, wherein that planet is, at some known moment of mean time, in a given meridian. γ. 1790 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 488 Epochs of the mean longitude of the satellites.1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Astron. ix. 191/2 The longitude of the sun, at some one time, which is called the epoch.1858 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. (ed. 5) iv. 168 They [sc. the clocks] would be found..to differ by the exact difference of their local epochs. II. A period of time. (Cf. similar use of era, term). 5. a. In early use, a chronological period dated from an ‘epoch’ in sense 1. In later use, a period of history defined by the prevalence of some particular state of things, by a connected series of events, or by the influence of some eminent person or group of persons. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history eldOE timeOE worldOE oldc1175 timea1382 epoch1629 era1741 lapse1758 age1827 canon1833 olam1870 α. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) lx. sig. L7^v His clothes were neuer young in our memory: you might make long Epocha's from them. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §8 They make three Epocha's, before the Law, under the Law, and the coming of the Messias. c1720 M. Prior Solomon iii. 758 Scenes of war, and epochas of woe. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 201 Chronologers have divided the age of the world into six different epochas. 1824 L. Stanhope Greece 4 The most shining epocha of her history. γ. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 161 Ages and epochs that destroy our pride.1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 486 A period of eight years of peace between two epochs of terrible civil discord.1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 467/2 ‘Ah, that indeed is a letter,’ sighs the lover of the Addisonian epoch. b. A period in an individual's life, or in the history of any continuous process. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > in a life or history of something yearsc1175 epoch1768 era1796 α. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 161 There are three epochas in the empire of a Frenchwoman. She is coquette—then deist—then devôte. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 372 This is one of the most extraordinary epochas in English history. 1788 T. Holcroft tr. Life Baron Trenck I. xiv The second great and still more gloomy epocha of my life. γ. 1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xx. 256 God's treatment of the penitent divides itself in this parable into three distinct epochs.1865 J. W. Draper Intell. Devel. Europe i. 9 We express our surprise when we witness actions unsuitable to the epoch of life. c. Geology. A period or division of the history of the formation of the earth's crust.Chiefly used indiscriminately for any distinct portion of geological time. The International Congress of 1881 proposed to use the terms era, period, epoch, age to denote successively smaller divisions; but this has not been generally followed. ΚΠ α. 1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 123 The most ancient epocha of which any memorial exists in the records of the fossil kingdom. γ. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 247 The language of those who talk of ‘the epoch of existing continents’.1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. viii. 268 But this would not produce a glacial epoch. 6. Physics. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §54 The Epoch in a simple harmonic motion is the interval of time which elapses from the era of reckoning till the moving point first comes to its greatest elongation in the direction reckoned as positive, from its mean position or the middle of its range. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 9 The maximum excursion of the harmonic vibration x = a cos ^2πt/ _T + α is a... The angle α is called the epoch angle, or simply the epoch. Compounds [Perhaps after the equivalent compounds in German.] epoch-forming adj.; epoch-making adj. originally said chiefly of scientific discoveries or treatises; now extended to designate any remarkable or sensational event, publication, etc. epoch-marking adj. journalistic alteration of epoch-making. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 17 All the epoch-forming Revolutions of the Christian world. 1863 Athenæum July 9/1 He has produced what the Germans call an epoch-making book. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 64 Epoch-making men..of human history. 1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church iii. 56 This work of Ezra, and the covenant..were of epoch-making importance. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/2 Every author of an epoch-making or epoch-marking book is liable to pass through two stages. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 272 Consent by the United States to administer Constantinople and the Straits, Armenia and Palestine, would be an epoch-marking step in itself. 1923 Daily Mail 16 Jan. 7 This epoch-marking experiment. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 59 He produced an epoch-making article. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end vi. 93 Most of these inventions, all described as ‘epoch-making’, were never heard of again after the first news-thrill. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 6/2 The evil of the Fulton speech..was not that it was ‘epoch-making’ but that it was ‘epoch-marking’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1614
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