lower-cased

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See also: lowercased

English

Adjective

lower-cased (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of lowercased.
    • 1942 June, Joseph Landau, “Rigid Rules of Writing Hold Newspapermen in Bondage—Slaves to Style!”, in Ralph L. Peters, editor, The Quill: A Magazine for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, volume XXX, number 6, Fulton, Mo.: Sigma Delta Chi, page 3, column 2:
      And a paper down South is reported to care nothing about spelling, so long as Negro is lower-cased.
    • 2005, David Grey, Gigi Bach, “Foreword”, in Romeo & Juliet: The 1-Hour Guidebook: An Illustrated Guide for Mastering Shakespeare’s Greatest Love Story, New York, N.Y.: SparkNotes, →ISBN, page :
      We adopted a naming convention of lower-cased titles, such as “the prince,” unless they were proper nouns (“Prince Escalus”).
    • 2014, Douglas Perret Starr, Deborah Williams Dunsford, “How and Why to Edit Copy”, in Working the Story: A Guide to Reporting and News Writing for Journalists and Public Relations Professionals, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 65:
      Use lower-cased letters for a.m. and p.m.: 1 a.m., 4:30 p.m., and no zeroes for zero minutes.

Verb

lower-cased

  1. simple past and past participle of lower-case