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texexeloa.

Headword: 
texexeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

one who draws and quarters another person, and makes little pieces of that person; or, one who causes division among people (see Molina; the effort to translate this concept to English here is from Stephanie Wood)

Alonso de Molina: 

texexeloa. el que desquartiza a otro, y le haze pedazos, o el que pone diuision entre algunos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
Death
War, Conflict