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molcahua.

Headword: 
molcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to forget (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
molcaua
Attestations from sources in English: 

The above sentiments are echoed in León's sermonario of 1614. He accuses Nahuas of neglecting their souls instead putting all their care into what they are drinking: "aic tle huel amotechcopa mìtoz, omolcauh in octli, achtopa molcauaz in tlein mocuaz, canel çan octli in cenca itech antlacuahtlamàti" (it can never be said of you [that] pulque is forgotten; first what is eaten will be forgotten, since it is just on pulque that you [so] very strongly rely).
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 26.