All 5 Uses of

sublime
in
The Lords of Discipline

To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to this city and this city alone, a trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque.
Chpt Prol. *

sublime = wonderful

But Bentley Durrell was not only a general, he was a sublime prototype of the species.
Chpt 1.5

sublime = ultimate

I think it's this sense of sublime order that offends you, Will.
Chpt 1.15 *

sublime = extreme

That was the single most sublime and untranslatable mystery of the school.
Chpt 3.26

It was fearful and terrible and sublime; it came from the great violent heart of us.
Chpt 3.28

sublime = wonderful

Definitions:

(1) (sublime as in: she is sublime)
impressively wonderful -- often beautiful or morally admirable
(2) (sublime as in: sublime ignorance)
pure or extreme
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, in chemistry or physics, sublime is used to indicate that something changes from a solid into a vapor without first melting; or vaporizes and then condenses right back again. That sense of the word is also often seen in the form sublimate.