Simonize vs Burnish - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between simonize and burnish

is that simonize is to polish something with a wax-like substance while burnish is to make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.

(simoniz)

to polish something with a wax-like substance

* Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Remember those days? The way Biff used to simonize that car? The dealer refused to believe there was eighty thousand miles on it.

To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.

* Dryden

The frame of burnished steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.

* Cunningham

Now the village windows blaze, / Burnished by the setting sun.

To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

* Dryden

A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.

* Herbert

My thoughts began to burnish , sprout, and swell.

* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, buff