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necentlaliliztli.

Headword: 
necentlaliliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an assembly, a bringing together; a congregation

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 226.

IPAspelling: 
nesentɬɑːliːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

necentlaliliztli. ayuntamiento, o congregacion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 64v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ne-, reflexive centlālia, -liz-tli. 226

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynin cenavatil ynin necentlaliliz, Ticcentlalia ynyn Cofradia = this one command
this accord. We convene this cofrada (Tula, 1570)
John Frederick Schwaller, "Constitution of the Cofradía del Santíssimo Sacramento of Tula, Hidalgo, 1570," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 19 (1989), 220–221.

1585. años. yn omochiuh Sancto concilio. yn teoytica necentlaliliztli yn nican mexico. ynic tlayahualoloc. = 1585, that a holy council, a spiritual assembly, was held here in Mexico, because of which there were processions. (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 140–141.

teoyotica innecentlaliliz yn Sanctome - the spiritual gathering of the saints
Fray Alonso de Molina, 1546 (Códice Franciscano, 35–6); translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix B, 2.