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nemachtiliztli.

Headword: 
nemachtiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a lesson, a recitation, teachings
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo veintiuno, 1996), 320.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn yecnemiliznemachtilizamatl = the book teaching proper living (scripture)
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 35r.; 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 E, 16.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yzcatlqui y nemachtilo = He aqui el ejemplo (seventeenth-century Guatemala)
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 108–109.

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