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δωρ-εά , Ion. δωρ-εή , ἡ: δωρειά in earlier Attic Inscrr., IG12.77, al., δωρεά first in ib.22.1.68:—
A.gift, present, esp. bounty ( = δόσις ἀναπόδοτος Arist.Top.125a18), Hdt.2.140; “δωρεὰν διδόναι” Id.6.130, A.Pr.340; πορεῖν ib.616; “δωρεῖσθαι” Pl.Plt.290c; δ. δέχεσθαι, λαμβάνειν, Isoc.6.31, 15.40; ironically, “θάνατόν τινι δωρεὰν ἀποδοῦναι” Antipho 5.34; “δ. ἔχειν” S.Aj.1032, D.18.312; “ἐν χάριτος μέρει καὶ δωρειᾶς” D.21.165; δωρειὰν καὶ χάριν ib.172, cf. Pl.Lg.844d; of a legacy, D.27.41, 65; δωρεαί privileges and immunities, opp. δῶρα, gifts in cash or kind, Philostr.VS2.10.4.
2. estate granted by a king, fief, Phoenicid. 4.7, PSI5.511.4, 518.2 (iii B.C.).
II. acc. δωρεάν as Adv., as a free gift, freely, Hdt.5.23, prob. in And.1.4; “μηδὲν δ. πράττειν” Plb. 18.34.7, cf. LXX Jb.1.9; “δ. λειτουργεῖν” Test.Epict.4.27, cf. Inscr.Prien. 4.17 (iv B.C.); so “κατὰ δωρεάν” IG7.2711.13, al. (Acraeph., i A. D.); “ἐν δωρεᾷ προσνεῖμαι” Plb.22.5.4; but γῆν （ἀμπελῶνα, etc.) ἐν δωρεᾷ ἔχειν to hold land by a royal grant, PRev. Laws 36.15 (iii B.C.), cf. 43.11, 44.3.
2. to no purpose, for naught, Ep.Gal.2.21.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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