LOWER Copy link • LOWER 1. v. TRANS., PROP. To make lower, let down, demittere aliquid. To lower the sails, navis armamenta demittere. Figuratively, minuere, imminuere alicujus auctoritatem; elevare aliquem or alicujus auctoritatem. To lower one’s self, i. e., (a) to humble one’s self, let one’s self down, se demittere, se submittere; to anything, prolabi adaliquid; se projicere in aliquid (e.g., in muliebres fletus); descendere ad aliquid (e.g., ad gravissimas verborum contumelias). (b) to act unworthily of one’s self, minuere suam dignitatem; se abjicere, se abjicere et prosternere (to throw one’s self away): lowering, indecorus. 2. v. INTRANS., PROP. To become dark, obscurari. Figuratively. To look sullen, frontem contrahere or obducere.