monumental

At the time, that was a monumental thing for the era, culturally.

On the summit of a height called Mostyn mountain, is a monumental stone denominated Maen Achwynfan (the stone of lamentation).

To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery.

The gardens are quite open to the public and are set forth with clipped hedges, trees, and monumental stone work of no mean order.

What is the use to the modern man of this “monumental” contemplation of the past, this preoccupation with the rare and classic?

Science is not even secure against the temptation of the monumental menu.