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acoquiza.

Headword: 
acoquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

to climb up high, or soar to thrive; to raise oneself up high; to be honored and enriched; to improve one's fortune

Orthographic Variants: 
acoquiça
IPAspelling: 
ɑhkokiːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

acoquiza. n. (pret. onacoquiz). leuantarse en alto o encumbrarse o medrar
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 2v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

acoquiza (v) = to lift up, to raise, to increase in dignity or power
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 149.

yn oquechcotonalloque. omentin tlahtoque Alonso davilla. yhuan yteyccauh Gil goçales aluarado. yaoyotl yntech tlah quichihuazquia. yuh mito macocuizquia. yn ipampa quitzauhtiaque. = the two lords Alonso de Avila and his younger sibling Gil González de Alvarado were decapitated. They were accused of being about to make war. It was said that they were going to rebel, for which they paid the penalty.(1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 138–139.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites