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tlacamictia.

Headword: 
tlacamictia.
Principal English Translation: 

to kill or sacrifice humans as offerings for divinities (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑmiktiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacamictia. ni. matar o sacrificar hombres ante los idolos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlacamictia in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Auh in ipã ilhuitl. y. amo tlacamictiloya = and in this festival no people were sacrificed.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 58.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Indigenous)