to remove someone from a position or duty (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
chico niteiquania
Alonso de Molina:
chico niteiquania. (pret. chico oniteiquani.) deponer a alguno del cargo que tenia. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.