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teteoyomaquiliztli.

Headword: 
teteoyomaquiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the religious jurisdiction of a curate or priest (e.g. parish); or, the act of administrating the sacraments (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

teteoyomaquiliztli. curazgo, o sacerdocio, o el acto de administrar los sacramentos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 107r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

teteoyomaquiliztli = parroquia (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 76–77.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)