bidding vs dictation

bidding

noun
  • That which one is bidden to do; a command. 

  • The act of placing a bid. 

dictation

noun
  • The act of ordering or commanding. 

  • Orders given in an overbearing manner. 

  • Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words. 

  • An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down. 

How often have the words bidding and dictation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )