to put something before someone, or to make an offering to a god or gods (see Molina); or, to set things in order with respect to one another, to lay things out for someone, to mend something (see Karttunen)
auh niman ye quihuica holli copalli. amatl. xochitl. in yetl. yhuan yn itoca tlacatlaqualli. ye quitlamanilizque yn teotl = And then he took rubber, copal incense, paper, flowers, tobacco, ad what are called abstinence foods with which they were to make offerings to the god (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)