to do penance, or to become deserving for someone (see Molina); also seen in association with becoming deserving of founding a town, of having a town over which to rule (see attestations)
a weaver of designs Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 51.