Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Circumvent

Circumvent , transitive verb

[Latin circumventis, past participle of circumvenire, to come around, encompass, deceive; circum + venire to come, akin to English come.]

To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to deceive; to delude; to get around.
I circumvented whom I could not gain. — Dryden