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temachtilli.

Headword: 
temachtilli.
Principal English Translation: 

something taught to someone, something instructive or didactic, a sermon (see Karttunen); religious instruction, teachings

Orthographic Variants: 
tēmachtīlli
IPAspelling: 
teːmɑtʃtiːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

temachtilli. enseñanza tal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMACHTĪL-LI something taught to someone, something instructive or didactic, a sermon / enseñanza tal (M), cosa que se enseña a personas, como plática, sermón (C) [(1)Cf.46r]. See TĒMACHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 221.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

temachtilli = enseñanza, instrucción que se da a alguien, de machtia, instruir
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxvii.

temachtilli = doctrina (Tetzcoco, 1595)
Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana, 36, reproducida digitalmente por el Internet Archive, http://archive.org/stream/artemexicana00rincrich/artemexicana00rincrich_....

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