اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ
1.
: see اِسْتَدْبَرَهُ. He faced him, or it. (TA) He turned his face towards him, or it.
2.
He came before his face.
3.
He went to meet him; he met him, or encountered him. He saw it before him: he looked forward to it: he saw it, or knew it, beforehand. He saw, or knew, at the beginning of it what he did not see, or know, at the end thereof.
4.
استقبلهُ بِأَمْرٍ (T, S, K, &c., in article بده) He met him, or encountered him, with a thing. or an affair, or an action. (TK in article بده.)
5.
استقبلهُ بِمَا يَكْرَهُ (A, K, in article بكت, &c.) He encountered him with, or, as it often means, he accused him, to his face, of a thing that he disliked, or hated: see بَكَّتَهُ; and the phrases اَلبْهتُ اسْتِقْبَالُكَ أَخَاكَ بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيهِ and بِالكَذبِ
قَابَلَهُ, voce بَهَتَهُ; and استقبلهُ بِالحَقِّ, voce قَرَحَهُ; in both senses like لَقِيَهُ بِمَكْرُوهٍ.
6.
اِسْتَقْبَلْتُهُ بِكَلَامٍ فِيهِ
غِلْظَةٌ [I encountered him, or confronted him, with speech in which was roughness]. (JK, M, TA, article جبه.)
7.
اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ
He anticipated it; namely, Ramadán, by fasting before its commencement. (TA.)
8.
See 8.