If we're bringing dictionaries into this, the OED explicitly labels that definition as obsolete outside a few specific usages (e.g. "every man", "half man, half

If we're bringing dictionaries into this, the OED explicitly labels that definition as obsolete outside a few specific usages (e.g. "every man", "half man, half beast", "man or beast"). Now if you were speaking in 1597 you'd be correct. The non-obsolete version is "An adult male human being, and senses principally based on this".