rote

Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.uncountable

• The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
• He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.

By repetition or practice and without much thought.

• The former may be seen as a more rote form of learning, contrasting with the latter which appears to include "executive" aspects

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.obsolete

• The Model of it was, That a third Part of the Senate or Parliament, ſhould rote out by Ballot every Year; […].

To learn or repeat by rote.transitive

• [Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-5

The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.rareuncountable

A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

• extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes

Synonym of crowd.