octlin.

1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. vii. 435 The most common [drink] with the Mexicans, and also the best was that of the maguei, called octli [It. Octli] by them.

a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 528/1 The most favourite spirit of the Mexicans is pulque or octli, a thick ropy juice which flows from a wounded agave or maguey.

1843 F. E. I. Calderón de la Barca Life In Mexico 143 The primitive Aztecs may have become as intoxicated on their favorite octli, as they called it, as the modern Mexicans do on their beloved pulque.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 213/1 The juice extracted by tapping the great aloe before flowering was fermented into an intoxicating drink about the strength of beer, octli, by the Spaniards called pulque.

1914 T. A. Joyce Mexican Archaeol. ii. 43 This awakening after heavy sleep..connected the octli gods with the waxing and waning of vegetation and the moon.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 157/1 Other mistakes relate to the preparation of the fermented drink ‘octli’.

1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 45/1 A gracious lady of blessed memory named Xochitl..invented octli, a booze made from the maguey plant, today called pulque.

1986 R. Schlesinger & A. P. Stabler André Thevet's N. Amer. iii. 209 (note) This important Aztec goddess [sc. Mayanetl] was the personification of the Maguey, which produced Octli, the intoxicating drink of the Aztecs.