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

Example Sentences

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memoriter

The hypothesis that Clement's quotation is made memoriter from our Gospel is very far from being inadmissible.

From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday

The first instance might illustrate the muscular method of learning history; the second, the memoriter method of reasoning in mathematics.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by Frank M. (Frank Morton) McMurry

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

Of course the recitations in such a case must be memoriter.

From The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

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