the novenary (a loanword from Spanish); nine days of condolences for the deceased; public worship offered for nine days; a Catholic religious tradition (see translations of Zapata y Mendoza)
New Spain; name of a Spanish jurisdiction embracing much of present-day Mexico The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.