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yaotica nitlacecehuia.

Headword: 
yaotica nitlacecehuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to pacify a land through war (see Molina, who gives the example in the first person singular)

Orthographic Variants: 
yaotica nitlaceceuia
Alonso de Molina: 

yaotica nitlaceceuia. yaotica onitetlaceceuili. pacificar y allanar la tierra con guerra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Imperialism (Indigenous)
War, Conflict