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tlacencauhtli.

Headword: 
tlacencauhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

something seasoned and prepared (see Molina); or, well completed, finished, said in praise of something (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlacencauhtli. cosa aderezada y aparejada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 116v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlacencauhtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huel tlacencauhtli = [¡]q[ue] bie[n] acabada [¡] (Lo que se suele dezir alabando alguna cosa: 1, 79) ACABADO
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citando a Arenas (1611), https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlacencauhtli/11616