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mimati.

Headword: 
mimati.
Principal English Translation: 

a subtle and delicate thing; or, to convalesce or get well after a sickness (see Molina); something prudent

Alonso de Molina: 

mimati. cosa sotil y curiosa, o convalecido de enfermedad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ximimatican. = Be prudent. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Personal communication, James Lockhart, in sessions analyzing Huehuetlatolli.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Inic quiteocihuizque iniquac mimati ipampa ye achto huel mococoticatca. = Así tendrán ganas de comer cuando está mejorando porque ya al principio muy estaban enfermos (centro de México, s. XVIII)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, ver página 281.