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[Date: 1200-1300; Origin: Perhaps from Latin rota ( ROTATE) or from Old French route ( ROUTE1)]
formal when you learn something by repeating it many times, without thinking about it carefully or without understanding it
::In old-fashioned schools, much learning was by rote .
::the rote learning of facts