rote

noun

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

   “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.”

2. (rare, uncountable)The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
3. 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”

4. Synonym of crowd.

adj

1. 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”

verb

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

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

2. (transitive)To learn or repeat by rote.

   “[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.52-55”