cuartia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cuartia.
Principal English Translation: 

to draw and quarter someone (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
quartia
Attestations from sources in English: 

"Tecpatl 1612...Sano ypan xihuitl ypan Viernes ayc cemilhuitl de Jolio oquipiloque se molato onpan chane decamachalco yn deco oquimictli ça o no yehuatl quartia Alcalde mayor gouernator in momochiuh yn ipa ciudad depeaca 1611 años (f. 14) = "Flint-knife (year) 1612...Also in this year on Friday, the first day of July a mulatto was hanged; he was a citizen of Tecamachalco. When he was dead, he was also cut into quarters at the order of the alcalede mayor and the overnor. It was done in the city of Tepeaca in 1611." (Anales mexicanos, Puebla, Tepeaca, Cholula, 1524–1645)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. , Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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