Abstract: Novel 3-aryloxy and 3-arylthioazetidinecarboxamides having utility in a method of treating convulsions and epilepsy and compositions therefor are disclosed having the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is oxygen or sulfur; B is oxygen or sulfur; Ar is pyridyl or halo-substituted-pyridyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are selected from hydrogen, loweralkyl, aryl, allyl, substituted allyl, propargyl, cycloalkyl, loweralkylcycloalkyl, cycloalkylloweralkyl, arylloweralkyl, diloweralkylaminoloweralkyl, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 when taken with the adjacent nitrogen atom may form a heterocyclic radical; R.sup.3 is hydrogen, loweralkyl, aryl or arylloweralkyl, and the geometrical isomers thereof, excepting that when R.sup.3 is hydrogen, Z is oxygen, B is oxygen, and Ar is phenyl or phenyl substituted by trifluoromethyl or aminocarbonyl, then R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 cannot be a combination of hydrogen and loweralkyl, and the further exception that when R.sup.