Chem. [f. ANIL- + -IDE, = Anil(ine am)ide.] A species of alkalamide, related to aniline as the amides are to the amines; hence called phenylamide; it may be viewed as ammonia NH3 in which one atom of H is replaced, as in aniline, by phenyl, and another by an oxidized radical, the name of the latter being prefixed, as in ACET-ANILIDE (= phenyl-acetamide).
1863. Watts, Dict. Chem. (1872), I. 295. Anilides, synonym of Phenylamides.
