memoriter
/məˈmoɹɪtəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That is or has been recited from memory; that has been learned by heart.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or involved with the practice of recitation or learning by heart.
Example Sentences
- "1818, John Henry Capper, 10 Papers Relating to the Convict Establishment, House of Commons Papers, Volume 16, Great Britain House of Commons, unnumbered page, The Holy Scriptures are daily read by them in general; and five-and-twenty chapters of them are, on an average, recited memoriter in the chapel every week."
- "Dr. C. W. Hodoe presides at the weekly speaking of the Junior and Middle Classes, each member of which is, in his turn, expected to deliver original discourses, memoriter."
- "There are certain subjects of study, which must, of course, be learned memoriter."
- "memoriter evidence; memoriter preaching"
- "[…] and he must exercise a constant vigilance, to guard against a mere memoriter and unintelligent study,[…]."
- "One difficulty attending memoriter speaking is, that the attention is likely to be concentrated upon words and periods rather than upon the whole subject, so that often on coming to the end of a sentence the speaker will have lost the thread of his argument, and there will be a total blank presented to his mind."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin memoriter.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: memoriter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /məˈmoɹɪtəɹ/
- British English: /məˈmɒɹɪtə/