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chicoquiza.

Headword: 
chicoquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

to lose one's virtue; to fall from virtue; to move aside; to surpass or exceed (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicoquiça
IPAspelling: 
tʃikokiːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

chicoquiza. ni. (pret. onichicoquiz.) apartarse dela virtud.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHICOQUĪZ(A) to move aside; to fall from virtue; to surpass, exceed / se sale aun lado (C), apartarse de la virtud (M), sobresale (T) [(1)Cf.94r,(1)Tp.124. T has CUA for CO. See CHICO, QUĪZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 50.