Adjective : an epoch-making discovery.    From Dictionary.com. 

"This masterly interpretation of an epoch-making book.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Deuteronomy is one of the epoch-making books of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

It was one of the epoch-making struggles of ancient history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Asia was assured by her victory on the epoch-making field of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Westinghouse and from Eiffel to Edison, has been epoch-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opportunities in Engineering] Reference

Snellman's activity was of epoch-making importance for Finland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

Caesar's reforms in the provinces had an epoch-making character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

A rather epoch-making law was enacted in 1678 by the county court of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference

But the price which he paid for this epoch-making speech was fearful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

Next in chronological order comes the epoch-making organ in Worcester.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference

It is impossible to estimate the effect of his epoch-making researches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

Sir J.C. Bose then explained the principle of his epoch-making Resonant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

This was emphatically what has been called an "epoch-making" production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

In the early epoch-making period of the nation's history William Driver.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

Mr Chamberlain's fiscal policy, proved epoch-making in consolidating the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Pioneers of epoch-making reforms are seldom accorded the reward they merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

The capture of Constantinople is rightly regarded as an epoch-making event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

If we can discover this, we shall have the secret of this epoch-making novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

It was held in an office ringed with mementoes of the epoch-making test flight of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

Like other great revolutions, this epoch-making change in naval war began in a small way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

To define the scope and province of this intuition is the purport of Croce's epoch-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

But he imagined only one phase of the new and epoch-making tragic theme that he discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

Diane de Poitiers wished -- perhaps only dreamed -- and an epoch-making art project was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference

This epoch-making invention, introduced in 1832, rendered possible extraordinary developments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference

For instance, if old age pensions are considered by the workers to be an epoch-making reform and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

But now came the event that made the battle of the Saints 'Passage epoch-making in naval history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

But many months before this great epoch-making event, war had actually commenced on Lake Champlain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

In this epoch-making conflict neither the commander nor the commanded had any cause to be ashamed one of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

I felt as an investigator might feel, who has stumbled, haphazard, on some astounding, some epoch-making, discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

The thought is as simple as it is impressive, and it is yet so great as to be fairly epoch-making in its complete realization.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

It is now worth while to skip over two years to record another epoch-making speech, one which in spirit and temper belongs here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The autumn holidays were a great joy to him, and another epoch-making event must have been the taking of Swanston Cottage, in May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference

Enfantin on his epoch-making journey to Egypt, during which he implanted the idea of the Suez Canal in the minds of Mehemet Ali and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

Before showing what lay behind this epoch-making movement, let me refer to the great change in the British Union world that preceded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

Editors, "eleven strong, gathered together to concoct an epoch-making fib, which, upon completion, was labelled" The Truth about Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference

The book was written in 1918 before the United States took sufficient interest in the republic to bring about certain epoch-making changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference