memoriter

American  

[muh-mawr-i-ter, -ter, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr ɪ tər, -tɛr, -ˈmoʊr- /

adverb

1. by heart; by memory.

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adjective

1. involving or requiring memorization.

   the memoriter aspects of a college course.

Etymology

Origin of memoriter

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin, equivalent to memori- (stem of memor “mindful of, remembering” ) + -ter adverb suffix

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Example Sentences

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memoriter

There is, for instance, the question of the delivery of sermons—whether the preacher should read, or speak memoriter, or preach extempore.

From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

The Druids on the continent never committed their mysteries to writing, but taught their pupils memoriter.

From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

If the answers to such questions as the above are not indefinite, they must be purely memoriter, merely reproducing the words of the text without comprehension of any real meaning.

From The Recitation by George Herbert Betts

This expressed itself chiefly in a diminution of the time given to memoriter work in religion, and the introduction in its place of work in German history and geography, with some work in natural science.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

The old memoriter work was greatly reduced, and in its place an emotional and political emphasis was given to the religious instruction.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

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