combining form of AMIDE, sometimes used instead of AMIDO- before vowels; as in amidacetic acid, amidazobenzene, etc.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., 681. Amidacetic Acid is formed by the action of ammonia on bromacetic or chloracetic acid. Ibid. (1877), II. 467. Amidazobenzene … forms the chief constituent of commercial aniline yellow.
