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regidor mayor.

Headword: 
regidor mayor.
Principal English Translation: 

a cabildo officer title; often held by men on indigenous councils

Orthographic Variants: 
lexitol mayol, lexito mayor
Attestations from sources in English: 

regidorez mayorez (Azcapotzalco, 1703)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 14.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn tlatoani Don Ju. andres cobernador mo tequi panilhuia alcalde ton mateo lexitol mayol ton andres miquel ton Juan Diego alhuasil mayol, ton felipe de santiaco cobelnatol pasado ton fransisco de Bargas chicotencatl tlatoani chanè ipan altepetl acaiocan = Señores: Don Juan Andrés, Gobernador, que también era Alcalde; Don Mateo, Regidor Mayor; Don Andrés Miguel; Don Juan Diego, Alguacil Mayor; Don Felipe de Santiago, Gobernador pasado; Don Francisco de Vargas Xicotencatl, Gobernador y vecino en el pueblo de Acayocan (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 30, 42.