lower-case

See also: lowercase and lower case

English

Adjective

lower-case (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of lowercase

Verb

lower-case (third-person singular simple present lower-cases, present participle lower-casing, simple past and past participle lower-cased)

1. Alternative spelling of lowercase
   • 1901 May 29, Joseph L. Hills, “Style Board”, in Charles H. Waddell, editor, The University Cynic, volume XIX, number 4, Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, published 1901 June 10, page 71, column 2:

     Yet, as every rule has its exception, I have construed this dictum somewhat liberally and have as yet never failed to employ as big an A as I could command when the word American was used as an adjective, even while I lower-cased english, mexican and foreign nations generally.

   • 1991, Ellis Sandoz, “Editor’s Note”, in Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805, Indianapolis, Ind.: LibertyPress, →ISBN, page xxix:

     If a capitalized word would be lower-cased in modern usage, we lower-cased it, but we did not capitalize any word that appeared lower-cased in the original.

   • 1999 March 22, Esther Dyson, “Tuesday - In Between: The Architecture”, in Release 1.0: Esther Dyson’s Monthly Report, New York, N.Y.: EDventure Holdings Inc., →ISSN, page 17:

     And Kevin asked me to add that we have capitalized Open Source this time, to assuage tender sensibilities, even though we lower-cased it in November’s issue of Release 1.0.