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Mexitʹli

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Tutelary god of the Aztecs, in honour of whom they named their empire Mexico. (Southey.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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