to exercise one's right to a high status (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tecuuia, tecuhhuia
Alonso de Molina:
tecuuia. nitla. exercitar la caualleria. 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.