[Two formations: 1. f. Gr. ἐποχ-ή suspension of judgment, f. ἐπέχειν (see EPHECTIC) + -IST; 2. f. EPOCH + -IST.]

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  † 1.  A philosopher of the Ephectic School. Obs.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. (1632), 280. Pyrrho and other Sceptikes, or Epochistes.

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  2.  One who holds the theory that the ‘days’ of creation in Genesis signify epochs.

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1888.  Cave, Inspir. O. T., iii. 129. The Epochists … regard the days as epochs.

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