Principal English Translation:
admonitions (a ceremony or ritual)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 126.
an admoitory speech (central Mexico, 1634)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 59.
Attestations from sources in English:
tenonotzaliztli = "advising someone" = "advice and admonitions addressed to children or other family members, vassals, or other persons;" "sometimes took the form of a dialogue, with the person of junior rank briefly responding to the words of his or her superior."
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 44.