MICCĀYEHYECOĀ vrefl to be in terminal agony / esta en agonía (T) [(3)Tp. 152]. The literal sense of this is ‘to sample death.’ T also has MIQUILIZYEHYECOĀ ‘to have a brush with death.’ See MICCĀ-, YEHYECOĀ . Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 146.