Mexican

Mexican
1. noun /ˈmɛks.ɪ.kən/
a) A person from Mexico or of Mexican descent.

Surely, nature it ſelf calls to us for this reſpect to a deity, even the very ſavage Indians may teach us this point of religion; amongſt whom we find the Mexicans, a people that had never had any intercourſe with the other three parts of the World, Eminent in this kinde; what ſumptuous, and ſtately Temples had they erected to their Devils: How did they enrich their miſ-called Gods with Magazins of their treaſure?

b) The Mexican dialect of Spanish.

Not unlike to this were thoſe morſels of Paſte, which the Mexicans uſed in their Religious Feaſts, which they laid at their Idols Feet, conſecrating them by Singing and other Ceremonies, and then they called them the Fleſh and Bones of their God Vitziliputzli

Syn: Mexica, Aztec, Nahuatl
2. adjective /ˈmɛks.ɪ.kən/
Of, from, or pertaining to Mexico.

The principal grain of Mexico, before the introduction of thoſe from Europe, was maize, in the Mexican language called tluolli, of which there were ſeveral kinds, different in ſize, weight, colour, and taſte.

Syn: Mexica, Aztec, Nahuatl

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