Meanings of get by rote in English

Only they had learned the trick of speech and got by rote the language of religion.

At these words, which I am inclined to fancy had been got by rote, she sighed and looked down.

Such was the lesson which this fellow had got by rote, and had been retailing to all comers for years.

Sir, -In a verse I got by rote at school, the poet Pearse tells us that he is sad.

This does not apply to formulæ got by rote, which are stages on the road to nowhere but second childhood and the grave.

As he grew older, this wonderful power became impaired so far that getting by rote the compositions of others was no longer an involuntary process.