LekhoriLekhoriMechanical 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.
The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
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
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
From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have pro...
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[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