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Toltec, n. and a.|ˈtɒltɛk|
Also 8 Tolteca, 9 Tolteck, Tultec.
[ad. Sp. tolteca, ad. Nahuatl toltecatl, pl. tolteca.]
A. n. (A member of) a Nahuatl people who dominated the valley of Mexico c 900–1150 a.d., before the arrival of the Aztecs.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1787, etc. [see Olmec 1]. 1814[see Aztec n. and a.]. 1843W. H. Prescott Conquest of Mexico I. i. i. 12 The Toltecs were well instructed in agriculture. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 696/1 The Toltec and Aztec races. 1939G. Greene Lawless Roads iii. 104 Quetzalcoatl..was the white Toltec god of culture. 1955Sci. Amer. May 82 To be a Toltec in Mexico was to be an exponent of civilization. 1977Time 21 Feb. 19/1 He wrote his mystical novelette about the god Quetzalcoatl, who figures so largely in the Toltec legends of the Mexican people. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express iii. 52 Towards Tula, a treeless desert..rose into peaks like pyramids. This was the capital of the Toltecs.
Hence ˈToltecan n. and a.
1839Penny Cycl. XV. 165/1 The older..monuments of Mexico are..the productions..of the Toltecans. Ibid. 165/2 The extraordinary vastness of..these..Toltecan constructions. |