Jacʹobites (3 syl.)

Jacobites, nicknamed Warming-pans. It is said that Mary dʹEste, 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.

Jacʹobites. An Oriental sect of Monophʹysites, so called from Jacoʹbus Baradæus (Jacoub Al-Baradei), Bishop of Edessa, in Syria, in the sixth century.