Toltecn.adj.

1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. ii. 103 The Olmecas [It. Olmechi] and the Xicallancas, whether one nation, or two distinct nations, but constantly allied and connected together, were so ancient in the country of Anahuac, that many authors account them prior to the Toltecas.

1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Res. Anc. Inhabitants Amer. I. 81 The Toltecks, the Cicimecks..and the Aztecks..notwithstanding their political divisions, spoke the same language.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. i. 12 The Toltecs were well instructed in agriculture.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 694/2 The Toltecs..left their original seat, far to the west, in 544.

1955 Sci. Amer. May 82 To be a Toltec in Mexico was to be an exponent of civilization.

1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express iii. 52 Towards Tula, a treeless desert..rose into peaks like pyramids. This was the capital of the Toltecs.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 696/1 The Toltec and Aztec races.

1927 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 568/2 I sing the snake song the Toltec fathers sang.

1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads iii. 104 Quetzalcoatl..was the white Toltec god of culture.

1977 Time 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.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 165/1 The older..monuments of Mexico are..the productions..of the Toltecans.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 165/2 The extraordinary vastness of..these..Toltecan constructions.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 691/2 The Toltecan family embraced the civilised nations of Mexico, Peru, and Bogota.