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rota|ˈrəʊtə|
[a. L. rota wheel.]
1. A political club, founded in 1659 by J. Harrington, which advocated rotation in the offices of Government; also, a society of this type.
1660Harrington (title), The Censure of the Rota upon Mr. Milton's Book, entituled, The Ready and Easie way to Establish A Free Common-wealth. 1662in J. Ogilby King's Coronation (1685) 3, I..With Common-wealths and Rota's fill their heads. a1680Butler Characters, Politician, A speculative Statesman,..that did all his Exercises in the late Times of cursed Memory at the Rota, but is not yet admitted to practise.
2. a. A rotation (of persons, etc.); a round or routine (of duties, etc.); † a rote.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. 425 These [councillors] are taken out of the great Council, and go round in a rota. 1710Palmer Proverbs 95 Such Formal Devotions that are nothing but a Rota. 1751R. Paltock P. Wilkins (1884) I. 186 The..occurrences which happened during this period..consisted chiefly of the old rota of fishing, watering [etc.]. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames 631 Perambulating the River..agreeably to a rota which is laid down. 1844in Ribton-Turner Vagrants & Vagrancy (1887) 254 The experience of those managers who have taken their rota of duty in the office. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. xiii. (1876) 10 According to a rota to be agreed on between each other.
b. A list of persons acting in rotation; a roster.
1856Hughes Tom Brown i. vii, The senior fag who kept the rota. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 419 Pleas of debt, which required the attendance of the parties to suits and the rota of qualified jurors. 1882Keary Outl. Prim. Belief ix. 437 They heard names called over and voices answering as if by rota.
3. R.C. Ch. The supreme court for ecclesiastical and secular causes. (Cf. rote n.5 2).
1679Burnet Hist. Ref. I. 50 At that time Staphileus Dean of the Rota was there. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2081/1 The Republick of Venice have named four Persons for the Pope to chuse one, to fill the Place of Auditor of the Rota. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Rota consists of twelve Doctors, chosen out of the four Nations of Italy, France, Spain, and Germany. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. 15 To tell the king's courts at Westminster, that their practice is..conformable to the decrees of the Rota or Imperial Chamber. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 149 He also claimed the holidays of the Roman rota for himself. 1877D. Lewis tr. Sander's De Schism. Anglica Introd. p. lxxiv, The next day was the day of the Conference with the Dean of the Rota. 1908Westm. Gaz. 6 July 5/1 A special law for regulating the working of the ancient tribunals, the Rota, and the Segnatura.
‖4. Mus. A musical composition which has the form of a round; this form itself. Used esp. of medieval English songs (as ‘Sumer is icumen in’, where this designation appears in the original manuscript). Cf. round n.1 19 b.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 381/1 Rota.., a Round, but the word is sometimes applied to anything with frequent repeats, as for instance a Hymn tune. 1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 180/1 It..is written for six voices, four of which sing the round proper or ‘rota’ (as it is termed in the Latin directions for singing it). 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 652/2 Rota,..medieval name for a round, particularly the Sumer⁓canon, probably with reference to the ‘turnover’ of the melody in the different parts. 1955New Oxf. Hist. Mus. (rev. ed.) II. xi. 402 Its form, which is described in the manuscript itself as a rota, is that of an infinite canon. 1979Early Music July 391/2 The piece in question is the famous rota ‘Sumer is icumen in’.
5. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) rota man, rota room; (sense 2) rota committee, rota system; rota cut, an interruption or reduction of power or water supplies which is imposed on different areas by rotation in time of shortage.
1935Planning II. xliv. 13 As much as possible of the actual assessment of need should be left to local rota committees, using the regional scale with fairly wide discretion.
1974Times 15 Feb. 15/2 The third course..is to impose rota cuts designed..to avoid the working days of industry, and..essential services such as hospitals. 1977Times 20 Apr. 5/2 Rota-cuts (when water supplies are cut off for a certain number of hours a day) might appear a less painful alternative than standpipes (involving total cut-off of domestic supplies).
1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 1108 As full of tricks, As Rota-men of Politicks. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 439 Dr. Will. Petty was a Rota-man and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club.
1673Character Coffee-House in Harl. Misc. (1745) VI. 429 A Coffee-House is..a Rota Room, that, like Noah's Ark, receives animals of every Sort.
1955Times 25 Aug. 9/6 Only if a six-day shopping week is adopted, with a rota system to give staff a five-day week, will distribution costs be materially increased. |