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actica.

Headword: 
actica.
Principal English Translation: 

to be in the middle; or, to be stuck somewhere (see Molina); or, to be located inside

Alonso de Molina: 

actica. n. (pret. onacticatca.) estar metido o hincado en alguna parte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Plural = acticate

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Chicometlaca acticate in cencaltin. = Siete personas están dentro de esta familia. (ca. 1540, Cuernavaca)
Ismael Díaz Cadena, "Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en español y náhuatl," Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigación no. 5, pp. 8, 50.