huenchihualiztli.

Headword: 
huenchihualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the making of an offering (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
venchioaliztli
Attestations from sources in English: 

itlan xaquj in metlatl, in atl, in venchioaliztli: auh ximotetlacamachiti, maca oppa tinotzalo: iehoatl in pillotl, in velnenotzaliztli, in nezcaliliztli, in tlaimacaxiliztli, in mauhcanemjliztli: auh njman ie iehoatl in iocuxcanemjliztli = Be diligent with the grinding stone, the chocolate, the making of offerings. And be obedient; do not be summoned twice. Nobility is the good doctrine, the way of prudence, the way of reverence, the way of fear, and then the way of peace (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 217.