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temachiotiliztli.

Headword: 
temachiotiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

an example, a sign, a list or a census (see Molina); this term was also used to refer to the fifth sacrament, extreme unction (see Bartolomé de Alva)

Alonso de Molina: 

temachiotiliztli. exemplo tal, empadronamiento o señalamiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chicontetl Sacramentos, oquimotlallilico. Inyc ce, Nequatequiliztli. Inyc ome: Tlaneltoquilizchicahualiztli. Inyc, yei: Neyolcuitiliztli. Inyc nahui: Tlaçeliliztli. Inyc macuili: Temachiotiliztli. Inyc chicuaçen: Teopixcatiliztli. Inyc chicome: Nemamictiliztli. = seven Sacraments. The first is baptism. The second is confirmation. The third is confession. The fourth is communion. The fifth is extreme unction. The sixth is priesthood. The seventh is marriage.
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), 141.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

chicontetl Sacramentos, oquimotlallilico. Inyc ce, Nequatequiliztli. Inyc ome: Tlaneltoquilizchicahualiztli. Inyc, yei: Neyolcuitiliztli. Inyc nahui: Tlaçeliliztli. Inyc macuili: Temachiotiliztli. Inyc chicuaçen: Teopixcatiliztli. Inyc chicome: Nemamictiliztli. = siete Sacramentos, que son los siguientes.
El primero, Baptizmo.
El segundo, Confirmacion.
El tercero, Penitencia.
El quarto, Comunion.
El quinto, Extremauncion.
El sexto, Orden Sacerdotal.
El septimo, matrimonio.
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), 140–141.

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