单词 | by rote |
释义 | > as lemmasby rote 1. by rote: in a mechanical or repetitious manner: (esp. of learning, etc.) acquired by memorization without proper understanding or reflection; (also) †with precision, by heart (obsolete). extracted from roten.1 a. With verbs as say, sing, play, etc.In quot. c1400 probably in sense ‘in due order, with due ceremony’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [adverb] on breastOE bout bookOE by rotea1325 by hearta1387 without (one's) booka1413 par coeura1425 cordially1479 perqueerc1480 cordiala1500 by the book1556 memoriter1612 memorially1660 from memory1856 a1325 (?c1300) in Anniv. Papers Kittredge (1913) 110 (MED) Ich may noȝt synge hym al bi rote Vorto tele eche note. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2207 (MED) Þat gere..Is ryched at þe reuerence me, renk, to mete bi rote. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 329 Euery statut koude he pleyn by roote. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 Suych labourerys synge may be roote, ‘Alle goo we stille, the Cok hath lowe shoon’. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHvii If it were, than I myght..say my seruice by rote and custome. 1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Giiv I did not syng one noate, Except it were by roate. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 377 Loke a ribaut of hem þat can nouȝt wel reden His rewle ne his respondes but be pure rote. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxiv. sig. G1v Hee tels you lyes by rote. 1658 J. Playford Breif Introd. Skill Musick (new ed.) ii. 78 To learn to play by rote or ear without book. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. vi. 132 We can all repeat the Commandments by rote. 1773 H. More Search after Happiness ii. 141 I talk'd by rote the jargon of the schools. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley vii. 111 The young ladies..played their duet more by rote than con amore this night. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 20 Nov. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 168 This guide..did his business less by rote, and more with a vivacious interest, than any guide I ever met. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 436 The college..where little boys learn to repeat by rote the Koran from end to end. 1913 ‘M. Field’ Mystic Trees 30 He learns our little part by rote. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iv. 140 ‘He lectures in medieval history,’ Robin answered by rote, ‘but don't get much of our money from that.’ 1988 P. Carey Oscar & Lucinda xlviii. 213 These were not prayers said by rote, but new ones, every time. b. With verbs as know, get, learn, etc. ΚΠ c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 70 He..herkned ay the wordes and the note Til he the firste vers koude al by rote. a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 5925 Alle maner of Spyces I know by rote. a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (Cambr.) (1930) l. 249 (MED) I shalle tech þe a gamme; I can hit wel be rote. 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. sig. aij I thinke it mete, that every christen man..knowe it by roote and with oute the boke. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ix. sig. H8v Singing all her sorrow to the note, As she had learned readily by rote . View more context for this quotation 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον viii. 375 The Psalmes of David which shee had almost ad unguem and by roat. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 11 All which he understood by Rote, And as occasion serv'd, would quote. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 38. ⁋12 He has by Rote, and at Second-hand, all that can be said of any Man of Figure, Wit, and Virtue in Town. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 3 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1427 Those principles which you then got, like your grammar rules, only by rote. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 212 Words learn'd by rote, a parrot may rehearse. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 294 Their commonplace doctrines, which they have learned by logic, by rote, at second-hand. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. vii. 339 In time we learn by rote the lessons which we had to spell out in our youth. 1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider ii. 38 Each of the men, repeating his name as though it were a lesson to be learned by rote, took his hand and shook it. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 9 The children of this sect learned their lessons, all subjects alike, by plaintive rote, singing them out in Hebrew. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 June A5/2 We see no reason for [basic knowledge]..to be given by list or learned by rote. < as lemmas |
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