through praying, pleading, and making supplications (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tlatlatlauhtiliztica. orando o rogando y supplicando, o con oracion y supplicacion. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 139v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.