Definition of "Mexican"

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?

1660, Joseph Hall, The Shaking of the Olive-Tree, page 260

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

1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra, or, a Treatise of Satans Temptations, pages 255–256

The Aztecheſe, or Mexicans, were the laſt who arrived in Anahuac.

1782, review of Storia antica del Messico, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, vol. 54, p. 144

Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican.

1856, Arthur Helps, The Spanish Conquest in America, volume 2, page 239

The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.

2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎

Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to "three Mexican countries."

2019, Claire Atkinson, “Fox News apologizes for graphic about '3 Mexican countries'”, in NBC News‎

"You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly.

1970, Stan Steiner, La raza: the Mexican Americans, page 224

You really scare me when you speak Mexican.

1998, Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, Herbert Siguenza, Culture Clash: Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy, page 23

I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation.

2000, Ben K. Green, The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos, page 87

DON COLLIER: Hey, you want to talk Mexican, join another tank, a Mexican tank.

2014, David Ayer, Fury, Columbia Pictures

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.

1795, W. Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, volume 4, page 87

The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican.

1810, review of "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain", in The Eclectic Review