to remove someone from high office, to deprive someone of a lordship (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tecutlaza, teuctlaza
Alonso de Molina:
tecutlaza. nite. (pret. onitetecutlaz.) deponer a otro, o priuarle del señorio o del officio real. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.