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meditación.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
meditación.
Principal English Translation: 

a meditation, a spiritual exercise
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 132–133.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Yzcatqui yn teoyotica neyehecoliztli, yn ixtlamachiliztli. in cecentetl Semana ipan ilnamicotiaz. in motocaiotia meditaciones = Here is the spiritual self-testing, the prudent way of doing things, that is thought about each week, called meditations. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 132–133.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)