To feel like doing a thing is to feel inclined to do it.
1855. Many times brother Joseph [Smith] would say, “Brethren, I have not apostatized yet, and don’t feel like doing so.”—Brigham Young, April 6: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 257.
1856. I feel like taking men and women by the hair of their heads, figuratively speaking, and slinging them miles and miles, and like crying, stop, before you ruin yourselves!—The same, March 2: id., iii. 225.
1857. Through the conduct of the people, Moses sometimes felt like fighting.—The same, Nov. 29: id., vi. 101.
