Jacʹobites (3 syl.).

Jacobites, nicknamed Warming-pans. It is said that Mary d’Este, the wife of James II., never had a living child, but that on one occasion a child, introduced to her bedroom in a warming-pan, was substituted for her dead infant. This “warming-pan child” was the Pretender. Such is the tale, the truth is quite another matter.

Jac’obites. An Oriental sect of Monoph’ysites, so called from Jaco’bus Baradæus (Jacoub Al-Baradei), Bishop of Edessa, in Syria, in the sixth century.