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holy, divine (a prefix added to certain words in the Spanish colonial era to connect them with the Christian religion)

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 141.

writer of sacred scripture (see Karttunen)

sacred scripture, a divine book, a sacred book (see Karttunen)

divine liquid, i.e. blood (see Sahagún/Sullivan); can also refer to flooding, as in flood and conflagration, or a great threat to human life (SW)

to inaugurate a new church or temple, with solemnity and a celebration for the dedication (see Molina)

a place name; Teocalhueyacan was the Otomi part of a mixed Nahua-Otomi cabecera called Tlalnepantla; formerly Teocahueyacan was an "Otomi sujeto of Tacuba." It was "variously classified as an estancia, a barrio, a cabecera, a parte, and a pueblo."

Charles Gibson, The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule, 1964, 56.

a temple or church (synonymous with teopan); or, something smaller, such as a chapel; or, a devotional building in a private residence

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 235.